1860 in literature

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

Events [edit]

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.
June 9 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.^[2]
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.
Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.

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

January 10 - Charles G.D. Roberts, 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, novelist and dramatist (died 1937)
June 6 - William Ralph Inge, theologian (died 1954)
July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 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)