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Events relating to english literature
H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel
The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher
E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family
John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte
J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere
Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse
James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners
Rat, Mole and Toad, in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, appeal to a wide readership
The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses
The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past
John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories
H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence
Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British
E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family
D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock
Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I
G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories
Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford
Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell
Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners
The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
