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Overview of the events of 1860 in literature
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
The first issue of the throughout the year.
. Her first full-length novel, Danesbury House , also appears this year.
Approximate date – The Catholic newspaper L'Univers is suppressed by the French government.
January 28 – The first of Charles Dickens ' literary sketches generally titled The Uncommercial Traveller appears in his magazine All the Year Round .[1]
February – John Maxwell
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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]
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
Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen .
Vasil Drumev, later Metropolitan Kliment of Tarnovo and Bulgaria's Prime Minister, brings out the first original story in the
Bulgarian language , "A Woeful Family" (
Nešastna familiya ), in the
Istanbul journal Bâlgarski knižitsi .
Parliament of Norway.
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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 )
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 )
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 )
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 .
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^ Gasson, Andrew (2010). "The Woman in White: A chronological study" . Retrieved 2013-11-06 .
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^ "Flanders Ebony Idol" . utc.iath.virginia.edu .
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^ The seven sisters of sleep: Popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world . James Blackwood, Paternoster Row.
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^ 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.
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New International Encyclopedia
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^ 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.
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