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Overview of the events of 1860 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1860 .
Events
Charles Dickens , c. 1860
January
January 28 – The first of
Charles Dickens ' literary sketches generally titled
The Uncommercial Traveller appears in his magazine
All the Year Round .
[1]
February –
Mary Elizabeth Braddon gives up her acting career to write.
[2] 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 .
[3]
April 4 –
George Eliot 's novel
The Mill on the Floss is published by
John Blackwood in three volumes.
[4]
June 9 –
Ann S. Stephens '
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter , a tale of the
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 , an early example of
mystery fiction , completes its serialization in
All the Year Round . It appears in book form in London around August 15.
[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 begins serialization in All the Year Round .
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
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]
Deaths
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 )
Awards
References
^ Charles Dickens: Family History . Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1999. p. 384.
^
"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.
https://archive.org/details/almanacofamerica00nels/page/201 201].
ISBN
0-86576-008-X .
^ Gasson, Andrew (2010).
"The Woman in White: A chronological study" . Retrieved 2013-11-06 .
^
Sutherland, John (2012). "Onions". The Dickens Dictionary . London: Icon. pp. 147–9.
ISBN
978-184831-391-0 .
^ Downs, Sandra; Brian W. Downs (2 January 1966).
Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 . Cambridge University Press. p. 217.
ISBN
978-0-521-04854-5 .
^
"Flanders Ebony Idol" . utc.iath.virginia.edu .
^
Abdul Karim, Munshi ;
Sharif, Ahmed (1960).
Hussain, Syed Sajjad (ed.).
A Descriptive Catalogue Of Bengali Manuscripts .
Dacca :
Asiatic Society of Pakistan . p. 74.
^
The seven sisters of sleep: Popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world . James Blackwood, Paternoster Row.
^ Arosenius, Louise; Hedberg, Valborg (1914). Svenska Kvinnor från Skilda vVrksamhetsområden: biografisk Uppslagsbok (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. p. 28.
OCLC
186092771 .
^ John Adams Comstock (1949).
A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America . Priv. print. for the author by the Commonwealth Press. p. 248.
^ Ormsby, Frank (1988). Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader . Belfast St Paul: Blackstaff Press. p. 2.
ISBN
978-0-85640-408-5 .
^ Charles Darwin (1993).
[The correspondence ] ; The correspondence of Charles Darwin. 8. 1860 . Cambridge University Press. p. 515.
ISBN
978-0-521-44241-1 .
^
"Follen, Eliza Lee (Cabot)" .
New International Encyclopedia . 1905.
^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920).
"Arndt, Ernst Moritz" .
Encyclopedia Americana .
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Jameson, Anna Brownell ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 147.
^ Stowe, Harriet Beecher (September 1869).
"The True Story of Lady Byron's Life" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 2020-12-04 .
^ "Chronique". Le Chrétien évangélique (in French). 3 : 280. 1860.
^ Stewart, Jon (2015). The cultural crisis of the Danish golden age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 39.
ISBN
9788763542692 .
^ Schopenhauer, Arthur (1999). Prize essay on the freedom of the will . Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. xi.
ISBN
9780521577663 .
^ Overbeck, Franz (2002). On the Christianity of Theology Translated with an Introduction and Notes . Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 58.
ISBN
9781725242128 .