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17 March – Kristian Elster, Jr, novelist, literary historian, theatre critic and biographer (born 1881). [5] 20 March – Dorthea Dahl, writer in America (died 1958) 26 March – Marta Marie Nielsen, schoolteacher and politician (d. 1948). [6] 28 April – Carl Bonnevie, jurist and politician (died 1972). [7]
Sibylle von Olfers (8 May 1881, Königsberg – 29 January 1916) was a German art teacher and a nun who worked as an author and illustrator of children's books. In 1906 she published her best-known work, The Root Children (original title: Etwas von den Wurzelkindern , "Something about the children from the roots").
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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 . [3] July 29 – The Law on the Freedom of the Press is passed in France.
An illustration for The Five Little Peppers, 1887. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children in their native state and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family.
William Powell Frith – A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 (1883) Art Gallery of South Australia established in Adelaide. St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts established at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, under the direction of Halsey Ives. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets published. [2]
Hvem er hvem? (English: Who is Who?) was a Norwegian book series, presenting facts about notable persons from Norway. The first edition was issued in 1912, and the 14th edition came in 1994. [1] From 1938, the plan was to publish such a book every three years, but the Second World War made that impossible.
1881 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1881st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 881st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1881, the ...