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Events relating to english literature
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections
The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young
English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters
Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day
Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising
Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders
Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon
Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse
Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford
Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy
Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff
D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence
Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall
Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject
Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica
Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems
English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions
English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That
English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems
