1860 in literature

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The year 1860 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January - First issue of the Cornhill Magazine published in London. Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage is serialized in it during the year.
January? - The Catholic newspaper L'Univers is suppressed by the French government.
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 dime novel when it is published in cheap paperback book format by Irwin P. Beadle & Co. in New York City to initiate the Beadle's Dime Novels series.^[4]^[5]^[6]
June 30 - 1860 Oxford evolution debate: Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
August 25 - Wilkie Collins' sensation novel The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, concludes serialization in the magazine All the Year Round. It is published in book form in London around August 15.^[7]
December 1 - Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations begins serialization in his magazine All the Year Round.
Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.
Andreas Munch becomes the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway.

New books

R. M. Ballantyne - The Dog Crusoe and his Master
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
V. G. Cowdin - Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (serialization begins)
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
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)
R. M. Potter - The Fall of the Alamo
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 (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)
Eugène Crepet - Poètes francais; Les Paradis artificiels: opium et haschisch
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Conduct of Life
Gray's Anatomy, 2nd edition
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)
May 9 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish-born novelist and dramatist (died 1937)
June 6 - William Inge, English theologian (died 1954)
July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American novelist, short story writer and social reformer (died 1935)
September 13 - Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (died 1937)
September 14 - Hamlin Garland, novelist, poet and essayist (died 1940)
October 23 - Molly Elliot Seawell, novelist and dramatist (died 1916)
December 11 - Leonard Huxley, writer and editor, father of Aldous Huxley (died 1933)
date unknown - Harriet Theresa Comstock, children's author (died 1925)

Deaths

January 29 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet, 90
February 9 - William Evans Burton, dramatist, theatre manager and publisher, 55
February 25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer, 69
May 9 - Samuel Griswold Goodrich ('Peter Parley'), children's author, 66
May 16 - Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron, widow of Lord Byron, 67
May 23 - Albert Richard Smith, journalist and humorist, 43 (bronchitis)
August 25
- Christian Lobeck, classical scholar, 79
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg, poet and critic, 68
September 21 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher, 72
December 2 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian, 68

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. 201. ISBN 0-86576-008-X.
↑ Gasson, Andrew (2010). "The Woman in White: A chronological study". Retrieved 2013-11-06.

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