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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1860.

Events

Charles Dickens, c. 1860

January
- The first issue of the Cornhill Magazine appears in London. It serializes Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage throughout the year.
- Mrs. Henry Wood's "sensation novel" East Lynne begins serialization in The New Monthly Magazine. Her first full-length novel, Danesbury House, also appears this year.
- Approximate date – The Catholic newspaper L'Univers is suppressed by the French government.
January 28 – The first of Charles Dickens' literary sketches generally titled The Uncommercial Traveller appears in his magazine All the Year Round.
February – Mary Elizabeth Braddon gives up her acting career to write.^[1] In the same year she meets her future husband John Maxwell.
March 27 – The Irish melodrama The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's theatre, New York.^[2]
April 4 – George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss is published by John Blackwood in three volumes.^[3]
June 9 – Ann S. Stephens' Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, a tale of the American frontier, becomes the first Beadle's dime novel, published in cheap paperback book format by Irwin P. Beadle & Co. in New York City.^[4]^[5]^[6]
June 30 – In the 1860 Oxford evolution debate, Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Lewis Carroll is among the audience.
August 25 – Wilkie Collins' sensation novel The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, completes its serialization in All the Year Round. It appears in book form in London around August 15.^[7]
c. September 3 – Charles Dickens burns most of his private papers at his home in Kent, Gads Hill Place, having taken up regular residence there this year.^[8]
December 1 – Charles Dickens's Bildungsroman Great Expectations begins serialization in All the Year Round.
unknown dates
- Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.
- Vasil Drumev, later Metropolitan Kliment of Tarnovo and Bulgaria's Prime Minister, brings out the first original story in the Bulgarian language, "A Woeful Family" (Nešastna familiya), in the Istanbul journal Bâlgarski knižitsi.
- Andreas Munch becomes the first person granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway.^[9]

New books

Fiction

R. M. Ballantyne – The Dog Crusoe and his Master
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Three Times Dead
Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
Mrs V. G. Cowdin – Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (serialization begins)
George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss
Mrs G. M. Flanders – The Ebony Idol
The Goncourt brothers (Edmond and Jules de Goncourt) – Charles Demailly
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Marble Faun
Mór Jókai – Poor Rich (Szegény gazdagok)
George Meredith – Evan Harrington
Multatuli – Max Havelaar
Thomas Love Peacock – Gryll Grange (serialization)
Charles Reade – The Cloister and the Hearth
Mary Howard Schoolcraft – The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina
Ann S. Stephens – Malaeska
Robert Smith Surtees – Plain or Ringlets? (concludes publication)
Anthony Trollope – Castle Richmond
Ivan Turgenev – First Love (Russian: Первая любовь, Pervaya ljubov; novella)
Charlotte M. Yonge
- Hopes and Fears
- Kenneth

Drama

Dion Boucicault – The Colleen Bawn
Louise Granberg – Johan Fredman

Poetry

Michael Madhusudan Dutt – Tilottama Sambhab Kabya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "Birth of Tilottama")
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – "Paul Revere's Ride"
See also 1860 in poetry

Non-fiction

Jacob Burckhardt – The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien)
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke – The Seven Sisters of Sleep. Popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world
Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Conduct of Life
Gray's Anatomy (2nd edition)
Eliphas Lévi – Histoire de la magie
Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux – La Magie au dix-neufième siècle (Magic in the nineteenth century)
J. W. Parker (ed.) – Essays and Reviews
John Ruskin – Modern Painters IV

Births

January 10 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet (died 1943)
January 29 – Anton Chekhov, Russian short story writer, novelist and dramatist (died 1904)
February 11 – Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (died 1953)
April 8 – Catherine Isabella Dodd, English education writer and novelist (died 1932)
April 9 – Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, English writer of romances and children's books (died 1929)
May 9 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish-born novelist and dramatist (died 1937)
June 1 – Hugh Thomson, Irish-born illustrator (died 1920)
June 6 – William Inge, English theologian (died 1954)
July 3 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American novelist, short story writer and social reformer (died 1935)
July 7 – Abraham Cahan, American Jewish journalist and novelist (died 1951)
July 14 – Owen Wister, American Western fiction writer and historian (died 1938)
July 18 – Herbert Kelly, English religious writer and cleric (died 1950)
August 12 – Harriet Theresa Comstock, American children's author (died 1925)^[10]
August 18 – Kristína Royová, Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet (died 1936)
September 13 – Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (died 1937)
September 14 – Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet and essayist (died 1940)
October 6 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, born Rosamund Ball and writing as Graham R. Tomson, English poet (died 1911)
October 23 – Molly Elliot Seawell, American novelist and dramatist (died 1916)
December 8 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick, Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died 1939)
December 11 – Leonard Huxley, English writer and editor (died 1933)^[11]

Deaths

January 29 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German poet (born 1769)
February 9 – William Evans Burton, English dramatist, theatre manager and publisher (born 1804)
February 25 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American lexicographer (born 1790)
March 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish-born essayist, travel writer and editor (born 1794)
May 9 – Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley), American children's author (born 1793)
May 16 – Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron, English memoirist (born 1792)
May 23 – Albert Richard Smith, English journalist and humorist (bronchitis, born 1816)
August 25
- Christian Lobeck, German classicist (born 1781)
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Danish poet and critic (born 1791)
September 21 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (born 1788)
December 2 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (born 1792)
December 11 – Anne Knight, English children's writer and educationist (born 1792)

Awards

Newdigate Prize – John Addington Symonds

References

^ "Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon". Retrieved 2013-03-11.
^ Parkin, Andrew, ed. (1987). Selected Plays – Dion Boucicault. Guernsey Press Co. p. 192.
^ Hughes, Kathryn (2010-03-27). "Rereading: Mill on the Floss". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
^ "Dime Novels". American Treasures of the Library of Congress. 2010. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
^ Lyons, Martyn (2011). Books: A Living History. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-60606-083-4.
^ Nelson, Randy F. (1981). The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. p. https://archive.org/details/almanacofamerica00nels/page/201 201]. ISBN 0-86576-008-X.
^ Gasson, Andrew (2010). "The Woman in White: A chronological study". Retrieved 2013-11-06.
^ Sutherland, John (2012). "Onions". The Dickens Dictionary. London: Icon. pp. 147–9. ISBN 978-184831-391-0.
^ Downs, Sandra; Brian W. Downs (2 January 1966). Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-521-04854-5.
^ John Adams Comstock (1949). A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America. Priv. print. for the author by the Commonwealth Press. p. 248.
^ Charles Darwin (1993). [The correspondence ] ; The correspondence of Charles Darwin. 8. 1860. Cambridge University Press. p. 515. ISBN 978-0-521-44241-1.

[1] "Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon". Retrieved 2013-03-11.

[2] Parkin, Andrew, ed. (1987). Selected Plays – Dion Boucicault. Guernsey Press Co. p. 192.

[3] Hughes, Kathryn (2010-03-27). "Rereading: Mill on the Floss". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2013-11-06.

[4] "Dime Novels". American Treasures of the Library of Congress. 2010. Retrieved 2013-11-06.

[5] Lyons, Martyn (2011). Books: A Living History. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-60606-083-4.

[6] Nelson, Randy F. (1981). The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. p. https://archive.org/details/almanacofamerica00nels/page/201 201]. ISBN 0-86576-008-X.

[7] Gasson, Andrew (2010). "The Woman in White: A chronological study". Retrieved 2013-11-06.

[8] Sutherland, John (2012). "Onions". The Dickens Dictionary. London: Icon. pp. 147–9. ISBN 978-184831-391-0.

[9] Downs, Sandra; Brian W. Downs (2 January 1966). Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-521-04854-5.

[Comstock1949-10] John Adams Comstock (1949). A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America. Priv. print. for the author by the Commonwealth Press. p. 248.

[11] Charles Darwin (1993). [The correspondence ] ; The correspondence of Charles Darwin. 8. 1860. Cambridge University Press. p. 515. ISBN 978-0-521-44241-1.

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