1860 in literature
See also: 1859 in literature, other events of 1860, 1861 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- January - First issue of the Cornhill Magazine
- June 9 - becomes the first dime novel to be published.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky returns to St Petersburg.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon meets her future husband John Maxwell.
- Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.
- The Univers religieux is suppressed by the French government.
- Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
- The first Vanity Fair magazine is published in the USA.
New books
- Charles Demailly - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
- The Dog Crusoe - RM Ballantyne
- Evan Harrington - George Meredith
- The Fall of the Alamo - R.M. Potter
- Hopes and Fears - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Kenneth - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Max Havelaar - Multatuli
- The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
- Poor Rich - Mor Jokai
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Non-fiction
- Eugène Crepet - Poètes francais; Les Paradis artificiels: opium et haschisch
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Conduct of Life
- Gray's Anatomy, 2nd edition
- John Ruskin - Modern Painters IV
Births
- January 10 - Charles G.D. Roberts, poet (+ 1943)
- January 29 - Anton Chekhov (+ 1904)
- February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (+ 1953)
- May 9 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (+ 1937)
- June 6 - William Ralph Inge, theologian
- July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, novelist and short story writer (+ 1935)
- September 13 - Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (+ 1937)
- September 14 - Hamlin Garland (+ 1940)
- October 23 - Molly Elliot Seawell (+ 1916)
- December 11 - Leonard Huxley, writer and editor, father of Aldous Huxley
- date unknown - Harriet Theresa Comstock, children's author
Deaths
- January 29 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet
- February 9 - William Evans Burton, dramatist
- February 25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer
- May 9 - Samuel Griswold Goodrich, children's author (Peter Parley)
- May 16 - Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth, wife of Lord Byron
- May 23 - Albert Richard Smith, journalist and humorist
- August 25
- Christian Lobeck, classical scholar
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg, poet
- September 21 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
- December 2 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian
Awards
Categories
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