According to one source, the author is Rian B. Anderson.
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story containing the line "It was Christmas Eve 1881" in his Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle." In this story, Holmes investigates the case of a stolen jewel found in a Christmas goose.
Christmas Price Williams was born in 1881.
"A Century of Dishonor" was written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Published in 1881, the book documented the mistreatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Oscar Wilde wrote the poem "Roses and Rue" in 1881.
Renoir started this painting about 1881 and made substantial changes in it about 1886.
El Décimo, a short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán, was written in 1881.
Clara Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachussetts on Christmas Day in 1821 (not 1812) and founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
The 1881 book that exposed the harsh treatment of Native Americans was "A Century of Dishonor". Helen Hunt Jackson wrote the book in 1881.
"The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi is the first original story about Pinocchio, published as a serial in 1881 and then as a book in 1883.
The Story of PuPu was created in the late 1800s by a Hawaiian storyteller named Nakuina. It was first published in a Hawaiian language newspaper in 1881.
Daisy Ashford (1881-1972) wrote "The Young Visiters" when she was 9 years old. The book was not published until 1919.
Symptoms of Tay-Sachs disease were discovered by Warren Tay in 1881 and Bernard Sachs wrote about it in general in 1887. (this is a disease which affects the brain and eventually kills the person who has it.) Infants that have Tay-Sachs normally die by age 5. They start to lose their functions by the age of 8 months!! Discovered in 1881.
1921 - 1881 = 40