1860 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
	... 1850 . 1851 . 1852 . 1853 . 1854 . 1855 . 1856 ...; 1857 1858 1859 -1860- 1861 1862 1863; ... 1864 . 1865 . 1866 . 1867 . 1868 . 1869 . 1870 ... In poetry: 1857 1858 1859 -1860- 1861 1862 1863
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The year 1860 in literature involved some significant new books.

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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.

Jacob Burckhardt - Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien (The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy)
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

January 10 - Charles G.D. Roberts, poet (+ 1943)
January 29 - Anton Chekhov, Russian short story writer, novelist and dramatist (+ 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