1860 in literature

The year 1860 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * 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.

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
 * George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
 * G.M. Flanders - The Ebony Idol
 * Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - Charles Demailly
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Marble Faun
 * Mór Jókai - Poor Rich
 * George Meredith - Evan Harrington
 * Multatuli - Max Havelaar
 * 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
 * Charlotte Mary Yonge
 * Hopes and Fears
 * Kenneth

Drama

 * Dion Boucicault - The Colleen Bawn

Poetry

 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Paul Revere's Ride"

Non-fiction

 * 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

Births

 * 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

Deaths

 * January 29 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet
 * February 9 - William Evans Burton, dramatist
 * February 25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer
 * May 9 - Samuel Griswold Goodrich, children's author (Peter Parley)
 * May 16 - Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth, wife of Lord Byron
 * May 23 - Albert Richard Smith, journalist and humorist
 * August 25
 * Christian Lobeck, classical scholar
 * Johan Ludvig Heiberg, poet
 * September 21 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
 * December 2 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian