This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1860 .
Charles Dickens , c. 1860January
January 28 – The first of Charles Dickens ' literary sketches generally titled The Uncommercial Traveller All the Year Round [1] February – Mary Elizabeth Braddon gives up her acting career to write.[2] John Maxwell .
March 27 – The Irish melodrama The Colleen Bawn , or The Brides of GarryowenDion Boucicault , is first performed at Miss Laura Keene 's theatre, New York .[3] April 4 – George Eliot 's novel The Mill on the Floss John Blackwood in three volumes.[4] June 9 – Ann S. Stephens ' Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter American frontier , becomes the first Beadle's dime novel , published in cheap paperback book format by Irwin P. Beadle & Co. in New York City .[5] [6] [7] June 30 – In the 1860 Oxford evolution debate , Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History . Lewis Carroll is among the audience.August 25 – Wilkie Collins ' sensation novel The Woman in White mystery fiction , completes its serialization in All the Year Round [8] c. September 3 – Charles Dickens burns most of his private papers at his home in Kent , Gads Hill Place , having taken up regular residence there this year.[9]
December 1 – Charles Dickens 's Bildungsroman Great Expectations All the Year Round .unknown dates
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May 28 – Sigrid Pettersson , Swedish poet and translator (died 1926 )[14] June 1 – Hugh Thomson , Irish-born illustrator (died 1920 )June 6 – William Inge , English theologian (died 1954 )July 3 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman , American novelist, short story writer and social reformer (died 1935 )July 7 – Abraham Cahan , American Jewish journalist and novelist (died 1951 )July 14 – Owen Wister , American Western fiction writer and historian (died 1938 )July 18 – Herbert Kelly , English religious writer and cleric (died 1950 )August 8 – Eliza Putnam Heaton , American journalist and editor (died 1919 )August 12 – Harriet Theresa Comstock , American children's author (died 1925 )[15] August 16 – Jane Agnes Stewart , American author, editor, and contributor to periodicals (died 1944 )August 18 – Kristína Royová , Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet (died 1936 )September 2 – Georgina Fraser Newhall , Canadian author (died 1932 )September 13 – Ralph Connor , Canadian novelist (died 1937 )September 14 – Hamlin Garland , American novelist, poet and essayist (died 1940 )September 20 – Jennie Thornley Clarke , American educator, writer, and anthologist (died 1924 )October 6 – Rosamund Marriott Watson , born Rosamund Ball and writing as Graham R. Tomson, English poet (died 1911 )October 23 – Molly Elliot Seawell , American novelist and dramatist (died 1916 )December 8 – Amanda McKittrick Ros , born Anna McKittrick, Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died 1939 )[16] December 11 – Leonard Huxley , English writer and editor (died 1933 )[17]
January 26 – Eliza Lee Cabot Follen , American abolitionist and writer (born 1787 )[18] January 29 – Ernst Moritz Arndt , German poet (born 1769 )[19] February 9 – William Evans Burton , English dramatist, theatre manager and publisher (born 1804 )February 25 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich , American lexicographer (born 1790 )March 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson , Irish-born essayist, travel writer and editor (born 1794 )[20] May 9 – Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley), American children's author (born 1793 )May 16 – Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (Annabella Milbanke), English memoirist and wife of Lord Byron (born 1792 )[21] May 28 – Rosine de Chabaud-Latour , French religious thinker and translator (born 1792 )[22] May 23 – Albert Richard Smith , English journalist and humorist (bronchitis, born 1816 )June 18 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck , German army officer and writer (born 1783 )August 25
September 21 – Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher (born 1788 )[24] September 23 – George Godfrey Cunningham , Scottish non-fiction writer, compiler, and translator (born c. 1802 )October 22 – Wanda Malecka , Polish publisher (born 1800 )December 2 – Ferdinand Christian Baur , German theologian (born 1792 )[25] December 8 – Mary Hall Adams , American book editor and letter writer (born 1816 )December 11 – Anne Knight , English children's writer and educationist (born 1792 ) References
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