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Overview of the events of 1881 in literature
Overview of the events of 1881 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1881.
Events
February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper
La Citoyenne is published by
Hubertine Auclert in France.
March –
Ambrose Bierce contributes to the weekly satirical
San Francisco magazine
The Wasp (becoming editor by July) and resumes his column "Prattle" and the series of cynical definitions which he first calls
The Devil's Dictionary .
[1]
April –
William Poel 's production of
Shakespeare 's
Hamlet at
St. George's Hall, London , reverts to the
first quarto text and avoids elaborate scene changes.
[2]
April 23 –
Gilbert and Sullivan 's comic opera
Patience , a
satire on
Oscar Wilde and
aestheticism , opens with
George Grossmith in the lead at the
Opera Comique in London.
July 7 –
Carlo Collodi 's
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio ), a children's story about a wooden puppet in
Tuscany , begins to be serialized in the first issue of
Giornale per i bambini , a supplement to the Roman Sunday newspaper
Fanfulla della domenica [
it ] .
[3]
July 29 – The
Law on the Freedom of the Press is passed in France.
August 17 – The
Pushkin Prize is established by the
Russian Academy of Sciences .
[4]
October 1 –
Robert Louis Stevenson 's children's pirate adventure novel
Treasure Island begins serialization in the British magazine
Young Folks as Treasure Island; or, The mutiny of the Hispaniola by "Captain George North".
[5]
The
S. Fischer Verlag publishing house is founded by
Samuel Fischer in Berlin.
The first of the three-volume
History of Woman Suffrage , is published by
Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the United States.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 's historical drama
Tsar Boris (Царь Борис , published
1870 ) receives its première, posthumously, at
Anna Brenko 's Pushkin Theater in Moscow.
The literary review and movement
La Jeune Belgique is founded by the poet
Max Waller (Léopold Warlomont).
[6]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 9
January 18 –
Gaston Gallimard , French publisher (died
1975 )
January 28 –
Ruby M. Ayres , English romance novelist (died
1955 )
February 10 –
Boris Zaytsev , Russian novelist and dramatist (died
1972 )
February 13 –
Eleanor Farjeon , English children's writer and poet (died
1965 )
[9]
March 4 –
Thomas Sigismund Stribling , American novelist (died
1965 )
March 14 –
Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est , Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (died
1980 )
March 17 –
Kristian Elster , Norwegian novelist, literary historian and biographer (died
1947 )
[10]
March 25 –
Mary Webb , English novelist (died
1927 )
[11]
April 14 –
Husain Salaahuddin , Maldivian writer (died
1948 )
May 13 –
Lima Barreto , Brazilian novelist and journalist (died
1922 )
June 24 –
George Shiels , Northern Irish dramatist (died
1949 )
July 22 –
Margery Williams , English-born American children's writer (died
1944 )
August 1 –
Rose Macaulay , English novelist, biographer and travel writer (died
1958 )
[12]
August 2 –
Ethel M. Dell , English romantic fiction writer (died
1939 )
August 10 –
Witter Bynner , American poet and scholar (died
1968 )
August 24 –
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen , Romanian social scientist, historian and poet (died
1958 )
October 5 –
Barbu Lăzăreanu , Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (died
1957 )
October 15 –
P. G. Wodehouse , English-born American humorous novelist (died
1975 )
October 30 –
Elizabeth Madox Roberts , American novelist and poet (died
1941 )
November 28 –
Stefan Zweig , Austrian novelist and playwright (died
1942 )
Dostoyevsky on his bier, drawing by
Ivan Kramskoi
Deaths
January 12 –
George Robert Aberigh-Mackay , Anglo-Indian author (tetanus,
[13] born
1848 )
January 28 –
Fyodor Dostoevsky , Russian novelist (born
1821 )
January 30 –
Anna Maria Hall , Irish novelist (born
1800 )
[14]
February 5 –
Thomas Carlyle , Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (born
1795 )
March 23 –
George Métivier ,
Guernsey poet writing in
Guernésiais (born
1790 )
April 19 –
Benjamin Disraeli , English novelist and politician (born
1804 )
[15]
April 24 –
James T. Fields , American publisher (born
1817 )
July 1 –
Hermann Lotze , German philosopher (born 1817)
July 12 –
Caroline Leakey , English poet and novelist (born
1827 )
[16]
October 13 –
Mary Emma Ebsworth , English dramatist (born
1794 )
November 1 –
Jacques Perk , Dutch poet (born
1859 )
December 13 –
August Šenoa , Croatian novelist and critic (born
1804 )
unknown date –
Liu Xizai (刘熙载 ), Chinese scholar and literary critic (born
1813 )
References
^ Swaim, Don.
"Ambrose Bierce Chronology" . The Ambrose Bierce Site . Retrieved 2014-02-25 .
^ Thompson, Ann; Taylor, Neil, eds. (2006). Hamlet . The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd series, vol. 1 . London: Arden. pp. 36–39.
ISBN
1-904271-33-2 .
^
"Il Giornale per i Bambini" . Letteratura dimenticata (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-08-28 .
^ Екатерина Варкан. История Пушкинских премий в России. — Октябрь. — № 5, 2007 (Russian)
^
"1881 – Treasure Island" .
National Library of Scotland . Retrieved 2014-02-18 .
^
"Max Waller" .
Encyclopædia Britannica .
^ Carver, Stephen (2003). The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805–1882 . Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
^ Emilia Pardo Bazán (2003).
Un viaje de novios . Alianza Editorial.
ISBN
978-84-206-5560-4 .
^ Campbell, Margaret (1978). "Farjeon, Eleanor". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers . London: Macmillan. p. 426.
ISBN
978-0-33323-414-3 .
^
Beyer, Edvard ; Moi, Morten.
"Kristian Elster" .
Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2010-10-16 .
^ Gladys Mary Coles (1990).
Mary Webb . Seren Books. p. 17.
ISBN
978-1-85411-034-3 .
^
Kunitz, Stanley J. ; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1950). Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature (3rd ed.). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company. pp. 865–66.
^
Dictionary of Indian Biography . Haskell House, 1906.
^ Seamus Deane; Angela Bourke; Andrew Carpenter; Jonathan Williams (2002).
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing . NYU Press. p. 528.
ISBN
978-0-8147-9907-9 .
^ Jonathan Parry (23 April 2007).
Benjamin Disraeli . OUP Oxford.
ISBN
978-0-19-164751-2 .
^ Horner, J. C.,
'Leakey, Caroline Woolmer (1827–1881)' , Australian Dictionary of Biography , National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 11 May 2012.