1860 in literature
See also: 1859 in literature,
other events of 1860,
1861 in literature,
list of years in literature.
* January - First issue of the
Cornhill Magazine*
June 9 -
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter 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.
Charles Demailly -
Edmond & Jules de GoncourtThe Dog Crusoe -
RM BallantyneEvan Harrington -
George MeredithThe Fall of the Alamo -
R.M. PotterHopes and Fears -
Charlotte Mary Yonge Kenneth -
Charlotte Mary Yonge The Marble Faun -
Nathaniel HawthorneMax Havelaar -
MultatuliThe Mill on the Floss -
George EliotPoor Rich -
Mor JokaiThe Woman in White -
Wilkie Collins*
Eugène Crepet -
Poètes francais; Les Paradis artificiels: opium et haschisch*
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Conduct of LifeGray's Anatomy, 2nd edition
*
John Ruskin -
Modern Painters IV*
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 Huxleydate unknown -
Harriet Theresa Comstock, children's author
*
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
