1860 in literature

See also: 1859 in literature, other events of 1860, 1861 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• June 9 – Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.

New books

• Charles Demailly – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
• The Conduct of Life – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Dog Crusoe – RM Ballantyne
• Evan Harrington – George Meredith
• The Fall of the Alamo – R.M. Potter
• Hopes and Fears – Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Kenneth  – Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Max Havelaar – Multatuli
• The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
• Poor Rich – Mór Jókai
• The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

Births

• January 29 – Anton Chekhov (+ 1904)
• February 11 – Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (+ 1953)
• May 9 – J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (+ 1937)
• September 14 – Hamlin Garland (+ 1940)
• October 23 – Molly Elliot Seawell (+ 1916)

Deaths

Awards