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Death of Flaubert. 1880 Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance . Death of George Eliot. Meredith, The Tragic Comedians . Birth of Lytton Strachey. Gissing, Workers in the Dawn . Birth of Apollinaire. Hardy, The Trumpet-Major . Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the second time (–1885) Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov . First Anglo-Boer War (–1881). Death of Disraeli. 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience . Death of Carlyle. James, The Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square . Death of Dostoevsky. Christina Rossetti, A Pageant and other Poems . Birth of Picasso. D. G. Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets . Birth of Bartók. Shaw, Love Among the Artists . E. B. Tylor, Anthropology . Wilde, Poems . Ibsen, Ghosts . Death of Darwin. 1882 Froude, History of the First Forty Years of Carlyle's Life . Death of Emerson. Gilbert and Sullivan, Iolanthe . Death of D. G. Rossetti. Jefferies, Bevis . Death of Trollope. Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession . Death of James Thomson. Stevenson, Treasure Island . Birth of Virginia Woolf. Wagner, Parsifal . Birth of James Joyce. Birth of Stravinsky. Society for Psychical Research founded. Second Married Women's Property Act. Death of Wagner. 1883 Carpenter, Towards Democracy . Death of Marx. Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist . Birth of W. C. Williams. Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm . Birth of Mussolini. Birth of Sean O'Casey. ... log in or subscribe to read full text