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Events relating to english literature
Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica
D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist
After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
The Times Literary Supplement is published in London as an independent paper, separate from The Times
Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published posthumously in an abbreviated version
Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage
The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out
D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, The Rainbow, is seized by the police as an obscene work
Secret agent Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece
Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier
The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France
Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet
Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians
Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany
Sapper's patriotic hero makes his first appearance, taking on the villainous Carl Peterson in Bull-dog Drummond
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga
