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1860 in literature
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The year
1860 in literature
involved some significant new books.
Contents
1
Events
2
New books
3
Drama
4
Poetry
5
Non-fiction
6
Births
7
Deaths
8
Awards
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Events
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.
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New books
R M Ballantyne
-
The Dog Crusoe
Wilkie Collins
-
The Woman in White
George Eliot
-
The Mill on the Floss
Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
-
Charles Demailly
Nathaniel Hawthorne
-
The Marble Faun
Mor Jokai
-
Poor Rich
George Meredith
-
Evan Harrington
Multatuli
-
Max Havelaar
R. M. Potter
-
The Fall of the Alamo
Charles Reade
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The Cloister and the Hearth
Charlotte Mary Yonge
Hopes and Fears
Kenneth
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Drama
Dion Boucicault
-
The Colleen Bawn
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Poetry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-
Paul Revere's Ride
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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
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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
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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
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Awards
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