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KATHERINE ENGLISH AND IRISH FRENCH AMERICAN ARTS & SCIENCE MAIN HISTORICAL MANSFIELD’S LIFE LITERATURE LITERATURE LITERATURE (other major EVENTS philosophical and scientific works, music, painting) 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 October, 14 - George Francis -Maupassant, Pierre et -Birth of Eugene -John Boyd Dunlop - Germany: Emperor Kathleen Mansfield Armstrong, Jean; Gladstone O’Neill; invents the first Frederick III dies and is Beauchamp is born to Mephistopheles in -birth of Bernanos and -death of Bronson and pneumatic tire; succeeded by his son Annie Dyer and Harold Broadcloth: A Satire; Jouhandeau; Louisa May Alcott; -George Eastman Wilhelm II; Beauchamp, residing at - Mary Elizabeth -Émile Verhaeren, Les -Henry James, “The registers the trademark -Brazil: slavery is 11 Tinakori Rd, Braddon, The Fatal Débacles; Aspern Papers”; Kodak; abolished by the Lei Wellington, New Three; -Zola, Le rêve; -Vincent Van Gogh, Aurea (“Golden Law”); Zealand, “a little land -Robert Buchanan, The -Barrès, Sous l’Œil des - Walt Whitman, L’Arlésienne; -(12 March, USA) Great with no history.” She Heir of Linne; The City of barbares; Le Culte du November Boughs, Bedroom in Arles (La Blizzard paralyzes the will be one of six Dream: an Epic Poem; moi; Complete Poems and Chambre à coucher); east coast and causes children. -Wilkie Collins, The -Claudel, Fragment d’un Prose; Café Terrace at Night; 400 deaths; Legacy of Cain (novel in drame; -Edward Bellamy, beginning of the project 3 vols.); -The Brothers Looking Backward; the Décoration for the -Arthur Conan Doyle, Karamazov translated -Theodore Roosevelt, Yellow House Micah Clarke; into French (Frères Ranch Life and the (Sunflowers); series of -Birth of T. S. Eliot; Karamazov); Hunting-Trail; the Flowering Orchards; - Sir William Schwenck -Georges Courteline, Le -Grace Elizabeth King, The Night Café; some Gilbert, The Yeomen of Train de 8 h 47; Monsieur Motte. paintings of the series the Guard; The Roulin Family; The - George Gissing, A Life's Yellow House; Starry Morning; Night Over the Rhone; - George Grossmith, A -Paul Gauguin, The Society Clown: Painter of Sunflowers; Reminiscences; Madame Roulin; The - Thomas Hardy, Wessex Vision After the Sermon 1

Tales; (Jacob wrestling with - W. E. Henley, A book the Angel); of Verses; -Renoir, Girl with Spikes -death of Mary Howitt; - Girl with Flowers; - Thomas Hughes, A -Camille Pissarro, Apple manual for co- harvest at Eragny; operators. Prepared at - Georges Seurat, Port- the request of the Co- en-Bessin: The Outer operative congress, held Harbor (Low Tide); at Gloucester, in April, - Henri Toulouse 1879; Lautrec, Equestrienne -Kipling, Plain Tales (at the cirque fernando); from the Hills; Soldiers -John William Three, The Story of the Waterhouse, The Lady Gadsbys, In Black and of Shalott; Cleopatra; White, Wee Wee Willie -Sir Lawrence Alma- Winkie, and Turn overs Tadema, The Roses of from "The Civil and Heliogabalus; Military Gazette"; -Edmund Blair Leighton, -Edward Lear, Nonsense Call to Arms; Botany; -Johannes Brahms, -death of Edward Lear; Violin Sonata in D minor -Eliza Lynn Linton, (opus 108); Through the Long Night -Claude Debussy, (serialized in The Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 People); for piano; - George MacDonald, -Gustav Mahler, The Elect Lady; Symphony No. 1, Lieder -Gerald Massey, “The aus “Des Knaben Name and Nature of the Wnderhorn”; Christ”; “The Secret -Richard Strauss, Don 2

Drama of Shakespeare’s Juan; Macbeth (first Sonnets”; version); - George Meredith, A Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Reading of Earth; Symphony No. 5 - William Morris (selection), A Dream of John Ball; The House of the Wolfings; Signs of Change; “The Revival of Architecture”; “The Revival of Handicraft”; “Ugly London”; - Margaret Oliphant, The Second Son (1887- 1888); -John Addington Symonds, translation of Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; -Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales; -H. G. Wells, "The Devotee of Art";

1889 1889 1889 1889 1889 - William Allingham, Life -birth of Cocteau and -Edith Wharton -The Eiffel Tower is -Benjamin Harrison wins and Phantasy; Reverdy; publishes poems in inaugurated on 31 the presidency (USA) -John Barlas -Bourget, Le Disciple; “Scribner’s Magazine”; March; -(USA) Admitted to (pseudonym: Evelyn -Maeterlinck, La -William Dean Howells, -Bergson, Essai sur les statehood: North 3

Douglas), Love Sonnets; Princesse Maleine; Annie Kilburn; données immédiates de Dakota and South -Annie Besant, "Why I -Christophe, La Famille -Theodore Roosevelt, la conscience; Dakota, Montana, and became a Theosophist"; Fenouillard; The Winning of the -Klimt, The Sirens; Washington; -M. E. Braddon, The Day -La Revue Blanche West; -Lautrec, Ball at the -Germany: birth of Will Come; launched; -Mark Twain, A Moulin de la Galette; Adolph Hitler; -Robert Browning, -birth of Jean Cocteau Connecticut Yankee in -Seurat, La Tour Eiffel -France: Boulangists are Asolando; and Pierre Reverdy; King’s Arthur Court; -Paul Gauguin, The defeated in the general -Death of Robert -death of Villiers de -Munsey’s Magazine Green Christ; The Yellow elections of July; The Browning; l'Isle-Adam, Jules (1889-1929); Christ; Second International (in -Buchanan, A Man's Champfleury - birth of Donn Byrne -Van Gogh, copies after existence until 1916); Shadow; On Descending (pseudonyme de Jules (Irish parents). Millet and others; series -Japan: The Constitution into Hell: a letter Husson) and of Barbey of the Roulin Family; of the Empire of Japan; addressed to the Right d'Aurevilly; Starry Night; -Brazil: Emperor Dom Hon. Henry Matthews, -first French comic strip - The Exhibition at the Pedro II is deposed, Q.C., Home Secretary, (bande dessinée). Café Volpini; Brazil is declared a concerning the -John William republic; proposed suppression of Waterhouse, Ophelia; -Africa: Ras Menelik literature; The Bride of -Thomas Eakins, The becomes Emperor of Love; Agnew Clinic; Ethiopia and concludes -Lewis Carroll, Sylvie -Frederick McCubbin, the treaty of Uccialli and Bruno (vol. I); Down on His Luck; with Italy. British South - Wilkie Collins, Blind -Theodore Robinson, Africa Company rules a Love (novel in 3 vols., Winter Landscape; territory which will be completed by Walter -Enrique Granados, named Rhodesia. Besant after WC's Danzas españolas; death); -The Gondoliers (music: -death of Wilkie Collins; Arthur Sullivan, libretto: -Marie Corelli, Ardath; W. S. Gilbert; Savoy -Doyle, The Mystery of Theatre) Cloomber; - Sir William Schwenck 4

Gilbert, The Gondoliers; - George Gissing, The Nether World; -death of Gerard Manley Hopkins; -T. Hughes, David Livingstone; - death of G. P. R. James; -Edward Lear (post.), Tennyson’s Poems, illustrated by Lear; -Gerald Massey, My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New; -Morris (selection), “Gothic Architecture”; “Monuments in Westminster Abbey”; “Socialism and Anarchism”; The Roots of the Mountains; -Oliphant, Lady Car; -Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style; -Coventry Patmore, Principle in Art; -John Ruskin, Praeterita, (1885-1889); Dilecta (1885-1889); 5

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale; The Wrong Box (co-written with Lloyd Osbourne); -Swinburne, Poems and Ballads (third series); -Arthur Symons, Days and Nights; -Alfred Lord Tennyson, Demeter and Other Poems; -Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying; -William Butler Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin;

1890 1890 1890 1890 1890 - Dickens, The Lazy Tour -“Mercure de France”; -Emily Dickinson, -Belle époque; -France: birth of Charles of Two Idle Apprentices; “Hermitage”; Poems; -Paul Fort founds the de Gaulle; -Richard Doddridge -birth of Maurice -Howells, A Hazard of Théâtre d'art; -Germany: Bismarck Blackmore, Kit and Genevoix and Victor New Fortunes; -James George Frazer, resigns; Kitty; Serge; -Jacob Riis, How the The Golden Bough: A -Union between -death of Dion -France, Thaïs; Other Half Lives; Study in Magic and Netherlands and Boucicault; -death of Octave -Henry James, The Religion (1890-1915); Luxembourg comes to -M. E. Braddon, One Feuillet; Tragic Muse; -William James, an end; Life, One Love; -Zola, La Bête humaine; -Sarah Orne Jewett, Principles of Psychology; -USA: Yosemite Park 6

-Buchanan, The -Claudel, Tête d’or; Tales of New England -Van Gogh, L’Arlésienne created (29 December); Moment After: a tale of -Christophe, Le Sapeur (1890 versions); At 200 Sioux killed by the unseen; The English Camenber; Eternity’s Gate; Houses soldiers in South Rose; -Renan, L’Avenir de la in Auvers; Harvest near Dakota; Sherman Act; -Marie Corelli, science. Auvers; The Church at McKinley Tariff Act; US Wormwood ; -Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Auvers; Thatched Census officially states -Arthur Conan Doyle, Axël Cottages by a Hill; the frontier has broken The Sign of Four; The Daubigny’s Garden; up; Firm of Girdlestone; double-squares and -Cile: civil war; -Marianne Farningham, squares; Portrait of Dr -Africa: Italy (pseudo. Eva Hope) Gachet; Wheat Field consolidates Eritrea into Stanley and Africa; with Crows; a colony; agreement - George Gissing, The -Monet, Canoe on the between Germany and Emancipated; Epte; he begins the Great Britain about - Hardy, "The Lady series “Haystacks”; settlements in East Penelope"; A Group of -Cézanne, Boy in a Red Africa; Cecil Rhodes Noble Dames; Vest (1888-1890); becomes Prime Minister - William Ernest Henley, Madame Cézanne; of the Cape Colony. Views and Reviews; -William-Adolphe -Ernest William Bouguereau, The Hornung, A Bride from Bohemian; the Bush; -Alma-Tadema, The -James, The Tragic Frigidarium ; Muse; -Fattori -Kipling, The Courting of - Dvořák, Requiem; Dinah Shadd and Other -Sibelius, Piano Quintet Stories and The City of in G minor; Dreadful Night; -Mascagni, Cavalleria -Eliza Lynn Linton, Rusticana; About Ulster; -Tchaikovsky, Queen of -G. MacDonald, A Spades; 7

Rough Shaking; -Borodin starts Prince -W. Morris News from Igor; Nowhere; The Story of the Glittering Plain; “Vandalism in Oxford”; -death of cardinal John Henry Newman; -Oliphant, Kirsteen (1889-1890); -Stevenson, Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu; Underwoods; -J. A. Symonds, Essays, Speculative and Suggestive; translation of The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; -W. B. Yeats, Lake Isle of Innsifree;

1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 -George Francis -Maupassant goes -Death of Melville -Thomas Edison patents -(USA) International Armstrong, One in the insane (b.1819) in New York; the “kinetoscope”; Copyright Law; Populist Infinite; -Rimbaud dies; -James, “The Pupil”; -John William Party formed in -Braddon, Gerard; or, -Jean Moréas opposes -Mary Eleanor Wilkins Waterhouse, Circe Cincinnati, Ohio; The World, the flesh, the Symbolists and Freeman, A New Offering the Cup to General Electric; and the Devil; founds “L’École England Nun and Other Ulysses; -Russia: construction -Buchanan, The Outcast: romane”; Stories; -Toulouse-Lautrec, pster on the Trans-Siberian a rhyme for the time; -Georges de Porto- -Rose Terry Cooke, advertising “La Goulue”; Railway begins; Come, Live with Me and Riche, Amoureuse; Huckleberries Gathered Woman Combing her -Italy: Leone XIII, Rerum 8

be My Love; The Coming -Mallarmé, Pages from New England Hills; Hair - Two Women in Novarum. Terror, and other essays -André Gide, Les cahiers -Howells, Criticism and Nightgowns; and letters; The d’André Walter; Fiction; -Seurat, Circus; Trumpet Call; The White -Allais, À se tordre; -Emily Dickinson, -Monet, poplar series; Rose (with George R. -Huysmans, Là-bas; Poems: Second Series; Haystacks (series begun Sims); The Wedding -Zola, L’argent; -Hamlin Hannibal in 1890); Ring: a tale of to-day; -Moréas, Le Pélerin Garland, Main-Travelled -Gauguin, Tahitian -Doyle, The White passionné; Roads; Women on the Beach; Company; The Doings of - Émile Verhaeren, -Mary Noailles Murfree Le Repas; Hail Mary; Raffles Haw; Falmbeaux noirs; (pen name Charles Conversation; -George du Maurier, -Gide, Le Traité du Egbert Craddock), In the -Henri Rousseau, Tiger Peter Ibbetson; Narcisse; “Stranger People’s” in a Tropical Storm; -Ford Madox Ford, The -Schwob, Coeur double. Country; -Mary Cassatt, The Bath Brown Owl; -Sophia Alice Callahan, (1891-92); -George Gissing, New Wynema: A Child of the -Frederic Leighton, The Grub Street; Forest (first novel by a Return of Persephone; -Thomas Hardy, Tess of Native American -Monet, Haystack. End the d’Urbervilles; "For woman author). of the Summer. Conscience' Sake"; ." Morning; The Doctor's Legend"; -John William "A Few Crusted Waterhouse, Ulysses Characters"; A Group of and the Sirens; Noble Dames (published -John Collier, Priestess by Osgood, McIlvaine); of Delphi; “On the Western -Brahms, Clarinet Circuit"; "The Son's Quintet in B Minor, Veto"; "What The Opus 115; Shepherd Saw"; -Delius, Irmelin; - Kipling, The Light that -Emile Pessard, Les Failed, Letters of folies amoureuses Marque and Life's (Théâtre de l’Opéra- 9

Handicap; Comique). -E. L. Linton, About Ireland; "An Octave of Friends," with Other Silhouettes and Stories; -G. MacDonald, There and Back; -Meredith, One of Our Conquerors appears in The Fortnightly, The Australasian and The New York Sun; - W. Morris, Poems by the Way; “Address on the Collection of Paintings of the English Pre-Raphaelite School”; “The Socialist Ideal: Art”; -Oliphant, The Cuckoo in the Nest (1891-1892); -William Sharp, Sospiri di Roma ; -G. B. Shaw, Quintessence of Ibsenism; -Stevenson, Ballads; -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories; 10

Intentions; Salome;

1892 1892 1892 1892 1892 - Mary Elizabeth -Zola, La Débâcle; -death of Whitman (b. -Rudolf Christian Karl -USA: democrat and Braddon, The Venetians; -Maeterlinck, Pelléas et 1819); Diesel invents the diesel former president -Buchanan, Buchanan's Mélisande; -James, “The Real engine; Grover Cleveland is Poems for the People -Feydeau, Monsieur Thing”; -Lautrec starts painting elected over Benjamin No. 1; The Lights Of chasse; -Frances Ellen Watkins At The Moulin Rouge; In Harrison and Populist Home (with Sims); The -Sardou, Madame Sans- Harper (African- Bed; Reine de Joie; candidate J. B. Weaver; Lost Paradise (with Gêne; American woman -Sir Frank Dicksee, -Italy: Italian Socialist Sims); The Black Domino -France, Le Jongleur de author), Iola Leroy; Passion; Party is founded; (with Sims); Notre Dame; La -death of Rose Terry -Frederic Leighton, The -GB: Gladstone is re- -M. Corelli, The Soul of Rotisserie de la Reine Cooke (b. 1827); Garden of the elected prime Minister. Lilith; The Silver Pedauque; -Mary Hallock Foote, Hesperides Domino; -Rodenbach, Bruges-la- The Chosen Valley; -George Hitchcock, The -Doyle, The Adventures Morte; -William Dean Howells, Flight Into Egypt; of Sherlock Holmes; The -Wuthering Heights The Quality of Mercy; -John William Godward, Great Shadow; Beyond translated into French -Grace Elizabeth King, Leaning on the Balcony; the City; Lot No. 249 (Hauts de Hurlevent). Tales of a Time and -Gauguin, We Shall Not -Marianne Farningham, Place; Go to the Market Today; Nineteen Hundred? A -Joel Chandler Harris, The Spirit of the Dead forecast and a story; Uncle Remus and His Keeps Watch; -Ford Madox Ford, The Friends. -Renoir, Girls at the Feather; The Shifting of Piano; the Fire; -Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, The Mountebanks; Haste to the Wedding; 11

-G. Gissing, Denzil Quarrier; Born in Exile; -Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody; -Thomas Hardy, The Pursuit of the Well- Beloved; -W. E. Henley, The Song of the Sword (London Voluntaries); (with Stevenson) Beau Austin; (with Stevenson) Deacon Brodie; (with Stevenson), Admiral Guinea; -E. W. Hornung, Under Two Skies; -Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, Rhymed Chapter Headings and The Naulahka: -Meredith, The Empty Purse; -Oliphant, The Sorceress (1892-1893); -birth of Vita Sackville- West; -George Bernard Shaw, Widower’s Houses (publ. 1893); -Stevenson, The 12

Wrecker (co-written with Lloyd Osbourne); A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa; Across the Plains; -A. Symons, Silhouettes; -Death of Lord Alfred Tennyson; -Tennyson, The Death of OEnone, and Other Poems; The Foresters; -Wilde, The House of Pomegranates; Lady Windermere’s Fan; -William Butler Yeats, The Countess Kathleen; he founds the National Literary Society of Ireland;

1893 1893 1893 1893 1893 -Annie Besant, An - Émile Verhaeren, Les -Henry James, “The Real -US: Hawaii becomes a Autobiography; Campagnes hallucinées; Thing and Other Tales”; US protectorate; -Mary Elizabeth -Zola, Monsieur Pascal; “The Middle Years”; World’s Columbian Braddon, All Along the -Malot, En famille; Essays in London and Exhibition (Chicago); River; A Life Interest; -Courteline, Elsewhere; Picture and -GB: Gladstone -Buchanan, The Boubouroche; Text; reintroduces a Home Wandering Jew: a Messieurs les ronds-de- -Stephen Crane, Rule Bill (but it will be Christmas carol; cuir; Maggie: A Girl of the rejected by the House 13

Woman and the Man: a -Jules Renard, Streets; of Lords). Foundation story; The Piper of L’Écornifleur; -Alice French (better conference of the Hamelin: a fantastic -France, Les Opinions de known as Octave Independent Labour opera; Jerome Coignard; Thanet), Stories of a Party; -L. Carroll, Sylvie and -Robert de Western Town; -The Banca Romana Bruno (vol. II); Montesquiou, Les -Henry Blake Fuller, The scandal; Prime Minister -Mary Coleridge, The Chauves-souris; Le Chef Cliff-Dwellers; Giolitti resigns; Seven Sleepers of des odeurs suaves; -Joseph Nicolar, The Life -Belgium adopts Ephesus; -Heredia, Les Trophées; and Traditions of the universal male suffrage; -M. Corelli, Barabbas; -Christophe, L’Idée fixe Red Man; -Africa: Menelik II learns -Doyle, The Refugees; du savant Cosinus; -“McClure’s Magazine” that the Italian version Jane Annie, or the Good (N.Y.) of the treaty makes Conduct Prize; Ethiopia a protectorate -Marianne Farningham, of Italy and denounces A Story of 50 Years; the agreement. (pseudo. Eva Hope), New World Heroes; -Ford Madox Ford, The Question at the Well; -Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress; -G. Gissing, The Odd Women; -Hardy, "The Fiddler of the Reels"; "Master John Horseleigh, Knight"; "A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork"; -Hornung, Tiny Luttrell; 14

-T. Hughes, Alfred the Great; - Kipling, Many Inventions; -G. MacDonald, Heather and Snow; The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (2 vols); Scotch Songs and Ballads; A Dish of Orts; -Meredith, Lord Ormont and His Aminta appears in Pall Mall Magazine; -Morris, “Printing”; “Textiles”; -Oliphant, A House in Bloomsbury (1893- 1894); -birth of Wilfred Owen; -W. Pater, Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures; -C. Patmore, Religio Poetae; -Elizabeth Missing Sewell, The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell; -George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer (publ. 1898); Mrs. Warren’s 15

Profession(publ. 1898); -Stevenson, Catriona (aka David Balfour); Island Nights’ Entertainments (aka South Sea Tales); The Beach of Falesá; -J. A. Symonds, translation of The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti; In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays; Walt Whitman. A Study; -death of J. A. Symonds; -H. G. Wells, "The Flying Man" (aka "The Advent of the Flying Man"); -Wilde, A Woman of No Importance; The Duchess of Padua; -W. B. Yeats, The Rose; The Celtic Twilight; he edits an edition of the Works of William Blake;

1894 1894 1894 -R. D. Blackmore, -Renard, Histoires -Mark Twain, 1894 1894 Perlycross; naturelles; Poil de Pudd’nhead Wilson; Claude Debussy, -(USA) workers’ strikes -Braddon, The carotte; -James, “The Death of L’Après-midi d’un faune (the Pullman Strike); Christmas Hirelings; -Gorges Courteline, Ah! the Lion”; “The Coxon -Italy: risings known as Thou Art the Man; Jeunesse!; Fund”; Theatricals; the Sicilian Fasci. The -Buchanan, The Devil's -Zola, Lourdes; -Harriet Prescott fasci’s leaders are Case: a bank holiday -France, Le Lys Rouge; Spofford, A Scarlet imprisoned. interlude (in verse); The -Mendès, La Légende du Poppy and Other Suppression of the Charlatan (play); Rachel Parnasse contemporain; Stories; anarchist insurrection in Dene: a tale of the -Schwob, Le Livre de -Kate Chopin, Bayou Lunigiana; Deepdale Mills; Red and Monelle; Folk; -(France) The conviction White Heather: North -France, Le Lys rouge; -Howells, A Traveler of Dreyfus for treason; Country tales and -Jarry, Les minutes de from Altruria; president Sadi Carnot is ballads; sable mémorial. -Death of Constance stabbed by the Italian -Doyle, The Memoirs of Fenimore Woolson (b. anarchist Sante Sherlock Holmes; The 1840); Geronimo Caserio; Parasite; -Edward Everett Hale, -(Russia): Nicholas II -George du Maurier, The Brick Moon of Other takes the throne; Trilby; Stories; - First Sino-Japanese -Ford Madox Ford, The -Gertrude Atherton, war (1894-1895); Queen Who Flew; Before the Gringo -Africa: Gladstone’s -G. Gissing, In the Year Came. government announces of Jubilee; that Uganda is to -Hardy, Life’s Little become a British Ironies (publ. By protectorate. Osgood, McIlvaine); "An Imaginative Woman"; -Hardy, Life’s Little Ironies; 17

-Hornung, The Boss of Taroomba; The Unbidden Guest; -birth of Aldous Huxley (d. 1963); -Kipling, Jungle Book; -E. L. Linton, The One Too Many (serialized in Lady’s Pictorial); -death of Henry Morley; -W. Morris, The Wood Beyond the World; “How I Became a Socialist”; Chants for Socialists; -death of Walter Pater; -W. Pater, “The Child in the House”; -death of Christina Rossetti; -The quarterly journal “The Yellow Book” launched; -W. Sharp, Vistas; -G. B. Shaw, Arms and the Man (publ. 1898); -Stevenson, The Ebb- tide (co-written with Lloyd Osbourne); -A. C. Swinburne, Astrophel and Other 18

Poems; Studies in Prose and Poetry; -H. G. Wells, "Æpyornis Island"; "A Deal in Ostriches"; "The Diamond Maker"; "The Final Men" (…; in this year Wells publishes lots of short stories); -Wilde, The Sphinx; -W. B. Yeats, The land of Heart’s Desire; -Wilde, The Sphinx. 1895 1895 1895 1895 1895 Begins school at Kaori -Blackmore, Fringilla; -Huysmans, En route; -Death of Frederick -Cuban rebellion; village school. Tales of the Telling -Zola, Rome; Douglass (Frederick Chekhov, The Seagull -Japan/China: treaty of House (America title: -Louÿs, Les Chansons de Augustus Washington Shimonoseki; Slain by the Doones); Bilitis; Bailey); -France: the Federation -Braddon, Sons of Fire; -Jarry, César Antéchrist; -James, “The Next of Workers’ Council -Buchanan, The - Émile Verhaeren, Les Time”; “The Altar of the merges with the Charlatan (novel, Villes tentaculaires; Dead”; Theatricals: National Federation of written with Henry -Gide, Paludes; Second Series; Guy Trade Unions, giving Murray); Diana's -The Picture of Dorian Domville; rise to the Hunting; Gray translated into -Stephen Crane, The Confédération Générale -Conrad, Almayer’s French (Portrait de Red Badge of Courage; du Travail; Folly; Dorian Gray); -Alice Brown, Meadow- -Italy: general elections -M. Corelli, The Sorrows -Paul Hervieu, Les Grass: Tales of New give Crispi a huge of Satan; Tenailles; England Life; majority; -Ernest Dowson, -Georges de Porto- -Alice Dunbar-Nelson, -Ecuador: civil war. Dilemmas; Riche, Le Passé; Violets and Other Tales; -G. Gissing, Eve's -Tristan Bernard, Les -Constance Fenimore 19

Ransom; Sleeping Fires; Pieds nickelés; Woolson, The Front -Hardy, Jude the -Georges Courteline, La Yard and Other Italian Obscure; Peur des coups; Stories; -Hornung, The Cricket -Paul Valéry, -Stephen Crane, The on the Green; Introduction à la Red Badge of Courage; -Kipling, The Second méthode de Léonard de Black Riders; Jungle Book; Vinci. -Ina Coolbrith -E. L. Linton, In Haste (Josephine Donna and At Leisure (3 vols); Smith), Songs from the -George MacDonald, Golden Gate; Lilith; -Hamlin Garland, Rose -Meredith, The Amazing of Dutcher's Coolly; Marriage; -James Lane Allen, A -W. Morris, The Wood Kentucky Cardinal; at the End of the World; -Simon Pokagon, An (and A. J Wyatt) Indian on the Problems The Tale of Beowulf of His Race. Done out of the Old English Tongue; “The Royal Tombs in Westminster Abbey”; “The Restoration of Rouen Cathedral”; -W. Pater (posth), Greek Studies: A Series of Essays; Miscellaneous Studies; -C. Patmore, The Rod, The Root and The Flower; -Fiona MacLeod 20

(William Sharp), The Mountain Lovers; -G. B. Shaw, Candida (publ. 1898); The Man of Destiny (publ. 1898); -Stevenson, Vailima Letters; The Amateur Emigrant (posth.); -J. A. Symonds, Blank Verse; -A. Symons, London Nights; -H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; The Wonderful Visit; "The Argonauts of the Air"; "A Catastrophe"; "The Cone"; "How Pingwell Was Routed"; "Le Mari Terrible" (…; in this year Wells publishes lots of short stories); Select Conversations With an Uncle (now extinct); The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents; -Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; An Ideal Husband; -the trial of Oscar 21

Wilde.

1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 -Max Beerbohm, The -birth of A. Breton; -Henry James, "The -first use of X-rays to -(USA) the Klondike rush Works of Max -Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi; Figure in the Carpet"; treat breast cancer; begins; Beerbohm; Caricatures -Louÿs, Aphrodite; The Other House; -(23 April) Koster and -(3 Nov, USA) of Twenty-Five -Hugo, Correspondance; -birth of Francis Scott Bial's Music Hall in New Presidential election: Gentlemen; -Schwob, La Croisade Fitzgerald (d. 1940); York: first movie; Republican McKinley -Blackmore, Dariel; des enfants; -Macmillan Co. -the first comic strip, wins over William -Braddon, London Pride; -Proust, Les Plaisirs et founded; “The Yellow Kid”, Jennings Bryan -Buchanan, Is Barabbas les Jours; - Stephen Crane, appears in New York -Italy: Crispi resigns. a Necessity?; Effie -Gourmont, Le Livre des George's Mother; The World; Antonio di Rudini Hetherington; A masques; Little Regiment and -B. Russell, German becomes minister of the Marriage by Capture: a -Renard, Histoires Other Episodes of the Social Democracy; interior. romance of to-day; naturelles; American Civil War; -Bergson, Matière et -M. Coleridge, Fancy's -Valéry, Une soirée avec -Sarah Orne Jewett, The Mémoire; -Asia: Anglo-French Following; Monsieur Teste. Country of the Pointed -death of William agreement on the -Conrad, An Outcast of Firs; Morris. Siamese question. the Islands; “The -Harold Frederic, The -La Bohème/The Independence of Siam. - Idiots”; Damnation of Theron Bohemian Girl by the -Anti-Spanish revolt in -M. Corelli, The Murder Ware; Italian composer the Philippines. of Delicia; The Mighty -Abraham Cahan, Yekl; Giacomo Puccini is first -Cuba: anti-Spanish Atom; Cameos; -Emily Dickinson, -Doyle, Rodney Stone; Poems: Third Series; performed, in Turin, revolt. -death of author and -Paul Laurence Dunbar, Italy -Africa: defeat of Italy in illustrator Georges du Lyrics of Lowly Life; -Alfred Nobel dies Adwa. Italians recognise Maurier; -James Lane Allen, -Henri Becquerel Ethiopian 22

-F. Madox Ford, Ford Summer in Arcady. discovers the independence. Madox Brown: a Record phenomenon of natural -France annexes of his Life and Works; radioactivity. Madagascar. - Sir William Schwenck -The first Olympic Gilbert, The Grand

Duke; or, The Statutory Games of the modern

Duel; era are held in Athens.

-G. Gissing, The Paying -English translation of

Guest; Theodor Herzl’s Der -Weedon Grossmith, A Judenstaadt (The State Woman with a History; of the Jews) appears. -Hardy, "A Committee- -The Polish writer Man of 'The Terror'";

"The Duke's Henryk Sienkiewicz

Reappearance"; publishes his novel Quo

-Hornung, The Rogue's Vadis?.

March: A Romance;

-Alfred Edward

Housman, A Shropshire

Lad;

-death of Thomas

Hughes;

-Kipling, The Seven Seas

and Soldier Tales;

-E. L. Linton, Dulcie

Everton (3 vols); “Twixt

Cup and Lip," and Other

Stories;

-Massey, My Lyrical Life:

Poems Old and New

(new edition); 23

-W. Morris, The Well at the World's End; The Sundering Flood (posthumously published); The Water of the Wondrous Isles (posthumously published); Old French Romances Done into English; Preface to The Nature of Gothic by Ruskin; -death of William Morris; -Oliphant, “The Library Window”; -W. Pater, (posth.; unfin), Gaston de Latour ; -death of Coventry Patmore; -Christina Rossetti, New Poems (posthumous); -“The Savoy” is published (only eight issues); -Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston (unfinished); Songs of Travel and Other Verses; -Elizabeth M. Sewell, 24

Conversations Between Youth and Age; -Fiona MacLeod (W. Sharp), The Washer of the Ford and Other Legendary Moralities; -H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Wheels of Chance; "The Apple"; "In the Abyss"; "The Plattner Story”; "The Purple Pileus" (…; in this year Wells publishes several short stories); The Red Room; 1897 1897 1897 1897 1897 -(April) A revolt breaks -George Francis -birth of Louis Aragon; -Edith Wharton -B. Russell, An Essay on out in Crete; Armstrong, Queen- -Rostand, Cyrano de publishes Decoration of the Foundations of (December)The Peace Empress and Empire, Bergerac; Houses, with Ogden Geometry; of Costantinople 1837-1897; -Péguy, Jeanne d’Arc; Codman; -M. Beerbohm, The -Renard, Le Plaisir de -Edwin Arlington -Russification in Poland Happy Hypocrite; rompre; Robinson, Children of and Baltic countries; -Braddon, Under Love's -Jarry, les Jours et les the Night; Anti-Semitic measures Rule; Nuits; -Simon Pogagon, “The in Russia - Rands (Matthew -Barrès, Les Déracinés; Future of the Red Man”; -Asia: Germany annexes Browne), Lilliput -Loti, Ramuntcho; -Mary Hartwell Qingdao. Lectures (publ. -Gide, Les Nourritures Catherwood, The Spirit -South America: civil Posthumously); Lazy terrestres; of an Illinois Town and Lessons & Essays on -Mallarmé, Divagations; The Little Renault; war in Uruguay. End of Conduct; Un coup de dés jamais -Ellen Glasgow, The the War of Canudos 25

-Buchanan, The Ballad n’abolira le hazard; Descendant; near Bahia, Brazil. of Mary the Mother: a -Paul Hervieu, La Loi de -Kate Chopin, A Night in -Africa: Treaty between Christmas carol (and l’Homme; Arcadie; France and Ethiopia. other poems); -Courteline, Monsieur -Henry James, What

-Butler, The Authoress Badin; Une lettre Maisie Knew; The Spoils of the Odyssey; chargée; La Voiture of Poynton; -Mary Coleridge, The versée. -Ruth McEnery Stuart, King with Two Faces; In Simpkinsville: Fancy's Guerdon; Character Tales; -Conrad, The Nigger of -Richard Harding Davis, the “Narcissus”; “The Soldiers of Fortune; Lagoon” (in Cornhill -death of Harriet Magazine); “An Outpost Jacobs; of Progress” (published -birth of William in Cosmopolis); Faulkner (d. 1962) -M. Corelli, Ziska; -Doyle, Uncle Bernac; -G. du Maurier, The Martian; -Marianne Farningham, In Evening Lights; -G. Gissing, The Whirlpool; “Human Odds and Ends”; -Hardy, The Well- Beloved (first published in 1892); "The Grave by the Handpost"; -Hornung, Dead Men Tell No Tales; -Kipling, Captains 26

Courageous; -G. MacDonald, Salted with Fire; -death of Margaret Oliphant; -Pater (posth.), Essays from “ The Guardian”; -G. B. Shaw, You Never Can Tell (publ. 1898); The Devil’s Disciple (publ. 1901); -Stevenson, St. Ives: being the Adventures of a French prisoner in England (unfinished); -Bram Stoker, Dracula; -A. Symons, Amoris Victima; -“The Yellow Book” ceases publication; -H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man; “The Crystal Egg”; “Le Mari Terrible”; “The Ghost of Fear”; "The Lost Inheritance"; “A Story of the Stone Age”; “The Star” (…; in this year Wells publishes several short stories); The Plattner Story and 27

Others; Thirty Strange Stories;

1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 Attends Wellington -Annie Besant, The -Zola’s article, -Gertrude Atherton, The -Alfred North -explosion and sinking Girls’ High School. Ancient Wisdom; “J’accuse” is published Californians; Whitehead, A Treatise of the American Publishes first work in -Braddon, In High (“L’Aurore”, January, -Finley Peter Dunne, on Universal Algebra battleship Maine Places; Rough Justice; 13); Mr. Dooley in Peace and with Applications; (Havana); High School Reporter. -Buchanan, Father -Zola, Paris(1897?); in War; -death of Edward -The US annexes Anthony: a romance of -Louÿs, La Femme et le -Henry James, “The Burne-Jones. Hawaii; to-day; The Rev. pantin; Turn of the Screw”; “In -Spanish-American war; Annabel Lee: a tale of -Margueritte, Une the Cage”; -Italy: Bava-Beccaris to-morrow; Époque; -Stephen Crane, The massacre. -Samuel Butler -Mirbeau, Le Jardin des Open Boat and Other -France: Zola publishes translates the Iliad; supplices; Tales of Adventure; “J’Accuse” -Conrad, Tales of -Nietzsche’ s main -Brander Matthews, Unrest; works are translated Outlines in Local Color; -Norway: Universal -M. Corelli, The Song of into French (Ainsi -Abraham Cahan, The Manhood suffrage is Miriam and Other parlait Zarathoustra; Au Imported Bridegroom introduced. Stories (Repackage of delà du bien et du mal); and Other Stories; -Russia: The Russian Cameos); The Modern -Courteline, Les -Frank Norris, Moran of Social-Democratic Marriage Market (with Boulingrin; the “Lady Letty”; Labour Party is formed others); -death of Edward -China "Hundred Days" -Doyle, The Tragedy of Bellamy (b. 1850); ends short period of The Korosko; -death of Harold liberal reform and -Marianne Farningham, Frederic (b. 1856) execution of the A Window in Paris; -“Yellow Journalism” reformer Tan Ssu-tung; -G. Gissing, The Town the British annex the Traveller; Charles Wei-hai region in Dickens: A Critical Shantung; the Russians Study; 28

-Hardy, Wessex Poems annex Lu-shan in Liao- and Other Verses; tung. -Hornung, Some Persons -South-America. End of Unknown; Young Blood; the Spanish-American -Kipling, An Almanac of War: Treaty of Paris Twelve Sports,The Day's (Spain cedes Cuba, Work and A Fleet in Being; Puerto Rico, Guam, and -death of Eliza Lynn also the Philippines - Linton; hich is yet to be -Meredith, Odes in conquered) for $20 Contribution to the Song million. of French History -The USA, Britain, and appear in Cosmopolis; Germany sign the -G. B. Shaw, Plays Pleasant; Plays Samoan Partition Unpleasant ; Caesar and Treaty. Cleopatra (publ. 1901); -America’s annexation The Perfect Wagnerite, of Hawaii. Commentary on the -Africa: The Fashoda Ring; Incident brings France -A. Symons, translation and the United Kingdom of The Dawn (by Emile Verhaeren); to the verge of war -H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds; “The Man Who Could Work Miracles”; “Mr Leadbetter’s Vacation”; “The Stolen Body” (…); -Wilde, The Ballad of 29

Reading Gaol; 1899 1899 1899 1899 1899 1899 Transfers to Miss -M. Beerbohm, More; -Zola, Fécondité; -Edith Wharton -G. E. Moore, The -France: Emile Loubet is Swainson’s school -Braddon, His Darling -Gourmont, Esthétique publishes first stories, Nature of Judgement. elected president of where she meets Maori Sin; de la langue française; Greater Inclination; France -William Brighty Rands -Feydeau, La Dame de -birth of Hemingway (d. princess Maata -China: Boxer rebellion (Matthew Browne), chez Maxim; 1961); Mahupuku, later Lilliput Lyrics (publ. -Gide, Le Prométhée -Charles W. Chesnutt begins; John Hay remembered in novel posthumously); mal enchaîné; (African-American proclaims "Open Door fragment, “Maata.” -Buchanan, The New -Vogüé, Les Morts qui author), The Conjure Policy" KM described by Rome; poems and parlent; Woman and The Wife -South Africa: civil war teacher as “surly” and ballads of our empire; -Courteline, Le of His Youth and Other in Bolivia and -Butler, Shakespeare’s gendarme est sans pitié; Stories of the Color Line; “imaginative to the Venezuela. Colombia: Sonnets Reconsidered; - Émile Verhaeren, Les -S. Crane, The Monster The Thousand Days point of untruth.” -Conrad, Heart Of Visages de la vie; and War is Kind; Darkness (it appears -Tristan Bernard, -birth of Hart Crane; War. serially in Blackwood’s L’anglais tel qu’on le -Kate Chopin, The -Africa: Anglo-Egyptian Magazine); parle; Awakening; Sudan (shared -G. Gissing, The Crown -Moréas, Les Stances. -Alice-Dunbar Nelson, administration of Sudan of Life; The Goodness of St. till 1956). Beginning of -Hornung, The Amateur Rocque and Other the Anglo Boer War Cracksman; Stories; begins -Kipling, Stalky and Co. -Alice Brown, Tiverton and From Sea to Sea; Tales; -E. L. Linton (post.), My -Charlotte Perkins Literary Life; Gilman, The Yellow -Oliphant, The Wall-paper; Autobiography and -James, The Awkward Letters of Mrs M. O. W. Age; “Europe”; “Paste”; Oliphant; -Frank Norris, -G. B. Shaw, Captain McTeague; Blix; 30

Brassbound’s -Harriet Prescott Conversion (publ. 1901); Spofford, The Nemesis -A. Symons, Images of of Motherhood. Good and Evil; The Symbolist Movement in Literature; translation of Boule de Suif (by Maupassant); -H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Awakes; "Mr Brisher's Treasure”; “A Vision of Judgement”; A Cure For Love; Tales of Space and Time; -Yeats and Lady Gregory cooperate in the foundation of the Irish Literary Theatre; The Wind among the Reeds.

1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 -death of Oscar Wilde, -birth of Robert Desnos, -Stephen Crane dies in - -Italy: assassination of Ernest Dowson and Antoine de Saint- Germany; -Russell, A Critical King Umberto I. Victor John Ruskin; Exupéry; Julien Green; -Zitkala-Sa, Impressions Exposition of the Emmanuel III ascends -Braddon, The Infidel; -(Willy and) Colette, of an Indian Childhood, Philosophy of Leibniz; the throne. Russia: The -W. B. Rands (Matthew Claudine à l’école; The School Days of an -Freud, The Browne), Lilliput Revels -Courteline, Les Indian Girl, and An Interpretation of Socialist -Revolutionary & Innocent's Island commissaire est bon Indian Teacher among Dreams Party. (publ. posthumously); enfant; L’Article 330; Indians; -Matisse begins -China: the Boxers -Buchanan, Andromeda: -Claudel, Connaissance -Charles W. Chesnutt, “Fauvist” movement occupy Peking and an idyll of the Great de l’Est; The House Behind the besiege the foreign River; -Mirbeau, Le Journal Cedars; embassies. -S. Butler translates the d’une femme de -Mark Twain, "The Man -Africa: British Odyssey; chambre; that Corrupted -G. K. Chesterton, -Jarry, Ubu enchaîné; Hadleyburg"; occupation of Pretoria. Greybeards at Play; The -Bergson, Le rire; -Theodore Roosevelt, The Boers engage a Wild Knight and Other -Darmesteter, Hatzfeld The Strenuous Age; protracted guerrilla Poems; and Thomas, -Smart Set; warfare against the -Conrad, Lord Jim; Dictionnaire général de -Theodore Dreiser, British forces -M. Corelli, Jane; Boy; la langue française; Sister Carrie; The Master Christian; -Rostand, L’Aiglon; -James, “The Great -Ernest Dowson, The -Eugène Brieux, La Robe Good Place”; “Mrs. Poems of Ernest rouge. Medwin”. Dowson (publ. posthumously); -Doyle, The Great Boer War; -Ford Madox Ford, Poems for Pictures; The Cinque Ports; 32

-W. E. Henley, For England’s Sake; -Hardy, "A Changed Man"; "Enter a Dragoon"; -Hornung, The Belle of Toorak; Peccavi; -Kipling, The Kipling Reader -E. L. Linton (post.), The Second Youth of Theodora Desanges (introduction by G. S. Layard); -H. G. Wells, Love and Mr Lewisham;

1901 1901 1901 1901 1901 -George Francis -birth of André Malraux; -Frank Norris, The -first broadcast of a -Italy: Zanardelli Armstrong, Ballads of -First Nobel Prize for Octopus; human voice via radio; becomes prime Down; Literature, awarded to -Charles W. Chesnutt, -Maurras, Anthinéas minister. -Arthur Christopher Sully Prudhomme; The Marrow of -Great Britain: death of Benson, poems set to -Courteline, Les Tradition; music by Edward Elgar: Balances; -James, The Sacred Queen Victoria; she is “In the Dawn”, “Speak, -Zola, Travail; Fount. succeeded by her eldest Music”, “Speak, My -Brieux, Les son Edward VII (son of Heart!” and the Remplaçantes; Victoria; Saxe-Coburg “Coronation Ode” -France, L’Affaire and Gotha). The British 33

including “Land of Hope Crainquebille; Monsieur House of Lords rules on and Glory” (1901-1902); Bergeret á Paris; the ‘Taff Vale Case’, -Annie Besant, Thought -Margueritte, Une weakening the position Forms; Époque (continuation); of trade unions. -Buchanan, The -Louÿs, Les Aventures du Complete Poetical roi Pausole; -China: The Boxer Works of Robert -Anna de Noailles, Le Protocol of September Buchanan; Cœur innombrable; 7, 1901 ended the -death of Buchanan; -Charles-Louis Philippe, uprising. -G. K. Chesterton, The Bubu de Montparnasse; -US: assassination of Defendant; -Hervieu, la Course du President William -M. Coleridge, The Fiery flambeau. McKinley. Roosevelt is Dawn; -Conrad (with Ford the new president. Madox Ford), The -Africa: anti-British Inheritors; “Amy guerrilla Foster”; -M. Corelli, The Passing of A Great Queen; -Marianne Farningham, (pseudo. Eva Hope), Life of General Gordon; -Weedon Grossmith, The Night of the Party; -George Grossmith, Piano and I: Further Reminiscences; -G. Gissing, Our Friend the Charlatan; -Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present; 34

-Hornung, The Black Mask; -Kipling, Kim and War's Brighter Side; -Meredith, A Reading of Life, with Other Poems; -G. B. Shaw, Three Plays for Puritans; The Admirable Bashville (publ. 1909); -H. G. Wells, The First Man in the Moon; "A Dream of Armageddon"; "Filmer"; "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland"; "The New Accelerator".

1902 1902 1902 1902 1902 Frequents the musical -death of Samuel Butler; -Gide, L’Immoraliste; -Edith Wharton -Macedonia: rebellions Trowell family. Falls in -G. K. Chesterton, -Rolland, Le 14 Juillet; publishes first novel, against the Ottoman love with Tom (Arnold) Thomas Carlyle; Twelve -Cahrles Péguy, De Jean Valley of Indecision; Empire Types; Coste; -Lincoln Steffens, The Trowell, cellist, whom -UK: Robert Cecil, Lord -publication of Heart of -Jarry, Le Surmâle; Shame of the Cities; she calls “Caesar.” Darkness by Joseph -Ghil, Les Pantoun des -Henry James, The Salisbury, retires as Dreams of pursuing a Conrad; "The End of the Pantoun; Wings of the Dove; British prime minister, musical career. Tether"; "To-morrow"; -Péladan, Modestie et -Ellen Glasgow, The and is succeeded by his Youth, a Narrative and Vanité; Battle-Ground; nephew Arthur Balfour. Two Other Stories; - Frères Tharaud, -Owen Wister, The Britain signs a treaty -M. Corelli, Temporal Dingley, l’illustre Virginian; with Japan to safeguard Power; A Christmas écrivain; -Frank Norris dies; 35

Greeting; - Émile Verhaeren, Les -Susie King Taylor, their common interests -Doyle, The Hound of Forces tumultueuses; Reminiscences of My in Korea and China. the Baskervilles; -Jarry, Le Surmâle. Life in Camp with the -Australia: white -F. Madox Ford, 33d United States women over the age of Rossetti; Colored Troops Late 1st -G. Gissing, The Private S. C. Volunteers; twenty-one win the Papers of Henry -birth of Steinbeck (d. right to vote. Ryecroft; 1968). -US: Roosevelt -Hardy, The Dynasts; withdraws federal -Hornung, The Shadow troops from Cuba (Platt of the Rope; Amendment). The US -Kipling, Just So Stories; Congress passes the -A. Symons, Poems (2 vols.); translation of Philippines Government Francesca da Rimini (by Act, making the D’Annunzio); Philippines a US -H. G. Wells, The Sea territory. Lady; The Inexperienced -Africa: the Boers Ghost" (aka "The Story accept British of the Inexperienced sovereignty (Treaty of Ghost"); The Loyalty of Esau Common"; Vereeniging) -William Butler Yeats, “Adam’s Curse”.

1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 January, 29 -A. C. Benson, The Hill of -birth of Radiguet and -William Edward -Arnold Schoenberg, -Emmeline Pankhurst The Beauchamps sail to Trouble and Other Simenon; Burghardt DuBois, The Pelléas et Mélisande; founds the Women’s Stories; -Zola, Vérité Souls of Black Folk; “The -G. E. Moore, Principia Social and Political England on the S.S -Braddon, The Conflict; (posthumous); Talented Tenth”; Ethica; Review of Frenz Union; 36

Niwaru. The trip lasts -G. K. Chesterton, -Eugène Torquet (pen -Henry James, The Brentano’s The Origin of -Russia: pogroms in forty-two days. Robert Browning; name: John Antoine Ambassadors; “The the Knowledge of Right Gomel and Kishinev. st Tennyson; Thackeray; Nau), Force Ennemie (1 Birthplace”; “The Beast and Wrong; The The Russian Social Leo Tolstoy; Varied Goncourt prize); in the Jungle”; Refutation of Idealism; 1903-JUNE 1906 Democratic Party splits Types; -Paul Léautaud, Le petit -Jack London, The Call -B. Russell, The Enrolls with sisters Vera -Conrad, (with Ford Ami; of the Wild; Principles of into the Mensheviks and Chaddie at Queen’s Madox Ford), Romance; -Mirbeau, Les Affaires -Mary Austin, The Land Mathematics; and the Bolsheviks. College, Harley Street Typhoon and Other sont les affaires; of Little Rain; -Italy: Giolitti becomes to be “finished.” Stories; -Renée Vivien, -Frank Norris, The Pit; Prime Minister. Pope Develops friendship -Doyle, The Exploits of Évocations; The Responsibilities of Pius X succeeds Pope with Ida Constance Brigadier Gerard; -Courteline, La Paix chez the Novelist Leo XIII. -Bertram Dobell, soi; Baker. -South America: with US Rosemary and Pansies; -Paul Hervieu, Le Adopts the name -Marianne Farningham, Dédale; encouragement, “Katherine Mansfield,” Harvest Gleanings and -Charles-Louis Philippe, Panama proclaims its while Ida becomes Gathered Fragments; Le père Perdrix; independence from “Lesley Moore”. -Hornung, Raffles, The -Camille Mauclair, La Colombia, concluding Meets first literary Amateur Cracksman; Ville Lumière. the Hay/Bunau-Varilla mentor, Walter -Kipling, The Five Treaty, negotiating the Nations; Rippmann, German terms for the building of -birth of George Orwell teacher. (d. 1950); a Panama Canal. Discovers the work of - G. B. Shaw, Man and -Africa: British forces Oscar Wilde. Superman (publ. 1903); complete the conquest Publishes five stories in Maxims for of northern Nigeria. school magazine and Revolutionists; becomes its editor. -A. Symons, Cities; Plays, Acting and Music; Completes studies at -John Millington Synge, Queen’s College in June. In the Shadow of the Works on novel Glen; 37

fragment “Juliet”. -H. G. Wells, “The Land KM’s period at Queen’s Ironclads”; "Mr. College is recorded in Skelmersdale in Fairyland"; "The Magic Ida Baker’s memoirs, Shop"; "The Magic The Memories of LM. Shop"; "The Valley of the Spiders"; Twelve Stories and a Dream; -publication of In the Seven Woods by Yeats.

1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 -birth of Cecil-Day -Moréas, Iphigénie; -Henry James, The - Quatuor à cordes en ré -France and UK sign the Lewis; -Gourmont, Golden Bowl; mineur d'Arnold “Entente Cordiale”, -M. Beerbohm, The Promenades littéraires; -Jack London, The Sea- Schoenberg agreements concerning Poets’ Corner; -Leroux, La double vie Wolf; colonial expansion (ex. -A. C. Benson, The Isles de Théophraste -Robert Herrick, The Egypt and Morocco); of Sunset; Longuet; Common Lot; -Russia: Russo-Japanese -Braddon, A Lost Eden; -Henry Bataille, Maman -death of Kate Chopin. war to gain control of -Gilbert Keith Colibri; Manchuria and Korea; Chesterton, The -Romain Rolland, Jean- -Australia: John Napoleon of Notting Christophe (first, second Christian Watson Hill; G. F. Watts; and third volume of the becomes the world’s -M. Coleridge, The series); first Labour Prime Shadow on the Wall; -Léon Frapié, La Minister; -Conrad, Nostromo; Maternelle (Goncourt -US: presidential -M. Corelli, God's Good prize); election, President Man; The Strange -Myriam Harry, La Theodore Roosevelt Visitation of Josiah conquête de Jérusalem; (Republican) defeats McNason; -Charles-Louis Philippe, Alton B Parker 38

-Doyle, The Return of Marie Donadieu; (Democrat). Sherlock Holmes; -Guillaumin, La Vie d’un -Marianne Farningham, simple; Women and their -Marius and Ary Le Saviour; Blond, La Sarabande; -G. Gissing, Veranilda; -Claude Farrère, Fumée -Hardy, The Dynasts, d’opium; Part 1; -Nobel Prize for -Hornung, Denis Dent: A Literature, Frédéric Novel; Mistral; -Joyce starts writing -Jules Romains, L’Âme Stephen Hero des hommes (published in 1944).; -birth of Patrick Kavanagh; -Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries; -G. B. Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island (publ. 1907); How He Lied to Her Husband (publ. 1907); -A. Symons, Studies in Prose and Verse; -John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea; -H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth; “The Country of the Blind”.

1905 1905 1905 1905 1905 -Bloomsbury Group; -Ohnet, La -William Dean Howells, -G. E. Moore, The -Ireland: the “Sinn Fein” -Braddon, The Rose of Conquérante; “Editha”; Nature and Reality of is founded; Life; -Moréas, Les Stances; -Charles W. Chesnutt, the Objects of -Russia: Russian -G. K. Chesterton, -Courteline, La The Colonel’s Dream; Perceptions; Revolution. Heretics; The Club of conversion d’Alceste; -Robert Herrick, The -B. Russell, On -France: law on the Queer Trades; -Claude Farrère, Les Memoirs of an Denoting; separation of the -M. Corelli, Free Civilisés (Gouncourt American Citizen; Churches and the State. Opinions; prize); -Edith Wharton, House -UK: Sir Henry -Lord Dunsany, Gods of -Romain Rolland, Jean of Myrth; Campbell-Bannerman Pegana; Christophe (fourth -James, English Hours; forms a Liberal ministry -Ford Madox Ford, The volume of the series); in Great Britain with Benefactor; The Soul of -Marius and Ary Le Robert Asquith as London; Hans Holbein Blond, Les Sortilèges; chancellor of the the Younger; -Jules Huret, De San Exchequer, Richard -Edward Morgan Francisco au Canada; Haldane as war Forster, Where Angels -André Chevrillon, secretary and Sir Fear to Tread; Sanctuaires et Paysages Edward Grey as foreign -G. Gissing, Will d’Asie; secretary. Warburton; -France, Monsieur -Japan: the Treaty of -Hornung, A Thief in the Bergeret á Paris; Portsmouth ends the Night; Stingaree; -Henry Bataille, La 1904-1905 Russo- -G. B. Shaw, Major Marche nuptial; Japanese War. Barbara (publ. 1907); -Claudel, Poèmes de la -China: Sun Yat-sen -A. Symons, A Book of Sexagésime; organizes anti-Manchu Twenty Songs; Spiritual -Péguy, Notre Patrie. revolutionary Adventures; Aubrey movement and founds Beardsley; the Tang-meng-hui -J. M. Synge, The Well of (United League). 40

the Saints; -US: the Industrial -H. G. Wells, Kipps; “The Workers of the World Empire of the Ants”; (IWW) is founded in Chicago. -Africa: the visit of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany to Tangier, Morocco, sets off the “First Moroccan Crisis” between France and Germany.

1906 1906 1906 -Braddon, The White -Valéry, La Soirée avec -Death of Paul Laurence 1906 House; Monsieur Teste; Dunbar (b. 1872); -Britain: the Liberals win -G. K. Chesterton, -Claudel, Le partage de -Jack London, White a huge victory. They Charles Dickens: A midi; Fang; launch a programme to Critical Study; - Jérôme et Jean -Mark Twain, What is help the poor and the -Conrad, "The Brute"; Tharaud, Dingley, Man?; "The Informer"; "An l’illustre écrivain is -Upton Sinclair, The elderly. The British Anarchist"; "Gaspar awarded the Goncourt Jungle; government passes Ruiz" (Strand prize. -Muckraking articles: legislation to provide Magazine); -Mlle Husson (pen Ray Stannard Baker, The children with free meals -M. Corelli, The name: André Corthis), Railroads on Trial; David at school: School Meals Treasure of Heaven; Gemmes et Moires; Graham Phillips, The Act. The British Trade -Doyle, Sir Nigel; -Charles-Louis Philippe, Treason of the Senate. Disputes Act reverses -Lord Dunsany, Time Croquignolle; and the Gods; -Jehan Rictus, Fil de fer; the Taff Vale judgement -Marianne Farningham, -Jane Landre, La of 1901. Women and their Work; Gargouille; -France: Dreyfus is 41

-Ford Madox Ford, The -Henry Bernstein, La rehabilitated. Clément Nature of a Crime (with Griffe; Le Voleur; Fallières, the candidate J. Conrad); The Fifth -Pierre Villetard, La of the Left, is elected Queen; The Heart of the Montagne d’amour; president of France Country; -Jean Bouvier, Les -G. Gissing, “The House Abandonnées; -Russia: reformer Peter of Cobwebs”; -Jarry, Ubu sur la Butte; Stolypin becomes prime -Hardy, The Dynasts, -Lucien Rolmer, L’Hôtel minister and introduces Part 2; de Sainte Agnès et des agrarian reforms -Henry Irving, Personal Célibataires; -Italy: Giovanni Giolitti’s Reminiscences of Henry -André Suarès, Voici coalition ministry deals Irving (publ. by B. l’homme; with strikes and unrest Stoker); -Gaston Chéreau, -Kipling, Puck of Pook's Champi-Tortu; in southern Italy Hill; - Émile Verhaeren, La -Cuba: liberal revolt -G. B. Shaw, The Multiple splendeur. against President Doctor’s Dilemma (publ. Palma. 1911); -Germany, France: a -A. Symons, The Fool of conference is convened the World; Studies in in Algeciras (Spain) to the Seven Arts; -H. G. Wells, In the Days solve the first Moroccan of the Comet; "The Door Crisis between France in the Wall". and Germany. -South Africa: Transvaal and Orange River Colony are granted self- government by Britain.

DECEMBER 1906 – 1907 1907 1907 1907 1907 -Picasso, ‘Les JUNE 1908 -William Allingham, A -Georges Courteline, -Edith Wharton settles -Britain: Schools Diary; Conversion d’Alceste; in Paris; Demoiselles d’Avignon’; Medical Inspection Act Returns with sisters to -birth of Wystan Hugh -Leblanc, Lupin, -Edith Wharton, The -Cubist exhibition in Hague Convention New Zealand but cannot Auden; gentleman cambrioleur; Fruit of the Tree; Paris; (Second Peace adjust. -Bergson, L’Évolution -M. Beerbohm, A Book -Claudel, Processional -Henry James, The Conference) Friendship with Edie of Caricatures; pour saluer le siècle American Scene; créatrice. -Norway: female Bendall recorded in -Braddon, Dead Love nouveau; -1907-09, New York suffrage diary. Has Chains; Her Convict; -Leroux, Le Mystère de Edition of James's work; -Austria-Hungary: a bill Publishes three stories -W. B. Rands (Matthew la chambre jaune; -Henry Adams, The Browne), The Young -Zévaco, Les Pardaillans; Education of Henry extends suffrage to all “Vignettes,” Norseman (publ. -Claudel, Art poétique; Adams (privately males aged 24 “Silhouettes,” and “ In a posthumously); -Ségalen, Les printed). -Sweden: proportional Café” in Australian -G. K. Chesterton, The Immémoriaux; representation for newspaper, Native Man Who Was -Saint-Pol Roux, Fééries elections to both Companion. Thursday1908 intérieures; chambers of its Takes a camping trip to -death of Mary -Sardou, Madame Sans- parliament. Gustavus V visit the hinterland of Coleridge; Gêne; -Conrad, The Secret -Émile Moselly, Jean des becomes king New Zealand at the Agent; “The Black brébis, ou Le Livre de la -New Zealand: by insistence of her father. Mate”; Misère; Terres Lorraines proclamation of King Writes “The Education (Goncourt prize); -W. H. Davies, New Edward VII, New of Audrey,” heavily Poems; -Colette Yver, Princesses Zealand assumes influenced by Oscar -Doyle, Through the de science; complete self- Wilde. Magic Door; -Tristan Bernard, -Marianne Farningham, Monsieur Codomat; government as the

A Working Woman's -Jean Vignaud, Terre Dominion of New JULY 6, 1908 Life; ensorcelée. Zealand (26 September) Leaves New Zealand for -Ford Madox Ford, An -birth of Maurice 43

England aboard the English Girl: a Romance; Blanchot, René Char, -Asia: Britain and Russia Papanui never to Privy Seal: his Last Eugène Guillevic, Rémi establish zones of return. Venture; The Spirit of Georges Hergé, Jules influence on Persia, the People; The Pre- Roy, Roger Vailland; Afghanistan and Tibet. Raphaelite -death of Hector Malot, SUMMER 1908 Brotherhood: a Critical Sully-Prudhomme, Joris- -Korea becomes a Resides at student Monograph; Karl Huysmans, Alfred Japanese protectorate. hostel, Beauchamp -Forster, The Longest Jarry; -Central America: war Lodge, near the canal at Journey; -Péguy, Situations breaks out between Paddington. -James Joyce, Chamber (1907–1908). Honduras, Nicaragua Receives from family a Music; he writes and El Salvador Giacomo Joyce; weekly allowance of -Kipling, Collected forty shillings: thirty for Verse; the rent and ten for the -Desmond MacCarthy, rest. The Court Theatre;

-birth of Louis AUTUMN - WINTER MacNeice; 1908 -Ezra Pound settles in Reconnects with the Europe;

Trowell family now in - Elizabeth Missing

London. Sewell, The

Transfers her feelings to Autobiography of

Elizabeth M. Sewell. Tom’s twin brother, Edited by Her Niece, Garnet, a violinist. Eleanor L. Sewell; Becomes pregnant by -G. B. Shaw, The Garnet. Interlude at the

Playhouse (publ. 1907);

-B. Stoker, “The

Censorship of Fiction”; 44

“The Censorship of Stage Plays” ( in The Nineteenth Century); -A. Symons, Cities of Italy; William Blake; -J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World; The Aran Islands;

1908 1908 1908 1908 -Braddon, During Her - Leblanc, Arsène Lupin -Mary E. Wilkins -Portugal: King Carlos I Majesty's Pleasure; contre Herlock Sholmès Freeman, The Shoulders is assassinated -G. K. Chesterton, -Anatole France, L'Ile of Atlas; -Bulgaria: Bulgaria is Orthodoxy; All Things des pingouins; -Jack London, The Iron declared independent Considered; -Leroux, Le Parfum de la Heel; -Mary Coleridge, Poems dame en noir; -James, The Whole from the Ottoman Published posthumously -Romains, La Vie Family (collaborative Empire (ed. Henry Newbolt); unanime; novel); “The Jolly -Austria annexes Bosnia -Conrad, "Il Conde"; -Cros, Le Collier de Corner”; and Herzegovina "The Duel"; A Set of Six griffes; -Belgium: King Leopold (US: 1915); -Forton, Les Pieds II takes the Congo for -M. Corelli, Holy Orders; nickelés (bande Belgium (Belgian The Kybalion dessinée), (anonymously with -François Durand (pen Congo). others); name: Miomandre), -Italy: an earthquake -W. H. Davies, Nature Écrit sur de l'eau; hits the region of the Poems; The -Édouard Estaunié, La Strait of Messina Autobiography of a Vie secrète; -UK: the Coal Mines Super-Tramp; How It -Amédée Rouquès, Le Regulation Act gives the Feels to be Out of Work; jeune Rouvre; miners an eight-hour -Lord Dunsany, The -Henri Barbusse, 45

Sword of Welleran and L’Enfer; day. The Liberals Other Tales of -Jean Viollis, Monsieur introduce Old Age Enchantment; le Principal; Pensions. Children’s Act -Marianne Farningham, -Maeterlinck, L’Oiseau -Germany: Wilhelm II Lyrics of the Soul; bleu; -Ford Madox Ford, The -Tristan Bernard, gives the Daily Fifth Queen Crowned: a L’Étrangleuse; Les Telegraph an interview Romance; Mr.Apollo: a Jumeaux de Brighton. containing statements Just Possible Story; against the British -F. Madox Ford people (and the French, launches “The English Russians and Japanese) Review”; -Ottoman Empire: -Forster, A Room with a View; revolt of the Young Turk -Hardy, The Dynasts, nationalists in Part 3; Macedonia. Sultan -Ezra Pound, A Lume Abdul Hamid II restores Spento; A Quinzaine for the Ottoman this Yule; constitution -G. B. Shaw, Getting -Persia: Shah Married (publ. 1911); -A. Symons, London: A Mohammed Ali Book of Aspects; overthrows the Persian translation of Elektra constitution of (by Hofmannstahl); December 1906 -J. M. Synge, The -US: the Republican Tinker's Wedding William Howard Taft (publ.); -H. G. Wells, The War in wins the US presidential the Air. election, defeating the Democrat William 46

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JANUARY 1909 1909 1909 1909 1909 1909 Publishes “The -M. Beerbohm, Yet -Gide, La Porte étroite; -Gertrude Stein, Three -Matisse, “The Dance” - Belgium: after the Education of Audrey” in Again; -Colette, L’Ingénue Lives; -Diaghilev’s Russian death of Leopold II, -Braddon, Our libertine; -William Carlos the Evening Post. ballet in Paris; Albert I succeeds to the Adversary; -Feydeau, La Puce à Williams, Poems; -Filippo Tommaso Begins to find a mature Belgian throne. -G. K. Chesterton, l’oreille; -James, Italian Hours. Marinetti’s Manifesto voice with her story George Bernard Shaw; -Zévaco, L’Hôtel Saint- appears in Le Figaro; -Italy: Baron Sidney “The Tiredness of Tremendous Trifles; The Pol; Sonnino becomes prime Rosabel” . Ball and the Cross; -Courteline, La Cruche; minister. -W. H. Davies, Beggars; -Farrère, La Bataille; -UK: the suffragette MARCH 2, 1909 -Marianne Farningham, -Mauriac, Les Mains Marion Wallace Dunlop Songs of Joy and Faith jointes; Marries George is the first hunger -Ford Madox Ford, The -Georges Athenas and Bowden, singing and striker in Britain. Old- 'Half Moon': A Romance Aimé Merlo (pen elocution teacher, ten of the Old War and the names: Marius and Ary age and non- years her senior, at the New; Le Blond), En France contributory pensions Paddington Registry -Hardy, Time's (Goncourt prize); are paid out by the Office. Laughingstocks and -Edmond Jaloux, Le government. David Wears black to her Other Verses; Reste est silence; Lloyd George, -Hornung, Mr. Justice -François Mauriac, Les wedding with Ida as chancellor of the Raffles; Mains jointes; 47

only witness. -Kipling, Actions and -Victor Cyril, Une Main Exchequer, proposes Leaves Bowden Reactions; sur la nuque; taxes on profits and immediately -death of Meredith; -Gilbert de Voisins, Le lands, but this “People’s -Ezra Pound, Personae; Bar de la Fourche; afterwards. Budget” is rejected by Exultations; -Jean Giraudoux, Bowden later -G. B. Shaw, The Provinciales; the House of Lords. caricatured in “Mr. Glimpse of Reality(publ. -Émile Nolly, Hien, le -Ottoman Empire: the Reginald Peacock’s Day” 1926); Press Cuttings Maboul; Turkish nationalists take Nine years pass before (publ. 1909); The -Charles Pettit, Pétales control of the Ottoman their divorce. Fascinating Foundling de rose et quelques Parliament: this event is (publ. 1926); The Bonzes; followed by a counter- Glimpse of Reality -Jean Vignaud, La MAY 1909 revolution. The Young A Tragedietta (publ. Passion de Claude Disapproving of KM’s 1926); How to Write a Bernier; Turks depose Abdul attachment to Ida, Popular Play; -Jules Romains, Odes et Hamid II, who is Annie Beauchamp -birth of Stephen Prières (1909-1913); succeeded by takes her daughter to Spender; -Cocteau, La Lampe Mohammed V. Bad Worishofen, -death of A. C. d'Aladin. Bavaria and leaves her Swinburne; -A. Symons, The there, probably Romantic Movement in unaware that she is English Poetry; pregnant. -death of John Synge; Experiences here -H. G. Wells, Tono- provide material for her Bungay; Ann Veronica; first collection In a "The Beautiful Suit" (aka German Pension. "A Moonlight Fable");

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SUMMER 1909 Romantic involvement with Floryan Sobieniowski, Polish critic and translator through whom she discovers Chekhov and new Russian literature. Writes “The Child Who Was Tired” borrowing a plot from Chekhov. May have contracted gonorrhea from Floryan with whom she plans to run away to Paris.

JANUARY 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 Returns to London, -Braddon, Beyond These -Rostand, Chantecler; -Jane Addams, Twenty -Post-Impressionist -Death of Edward VII, residing at the Strand Voices; -Claudel, Cinq grandes Years at Hull House; exhibition in London; accession of George V Palace Hotel. -G. K. Chesterton, odes; -Death of Mark Twain -Russell, Philosophical (second son of Edward What's Wrong With the -Roussel, Impressions (b. 1835); Essays; Principia VII; Windsor) Floryan eagerly awaits World; Alarms and d’Afrique; -death of Rebecca Mathematica (1910- -Portugal is declared a her in Paris, but she Discursions; William -Rolland, Les Amies; Harding Davis (b. 1831); 1913, with Alfred North republic ends their affair. Blake; Five Types; -Apollinaire, -death of William Whitehead) -Japan annexes Korea -Conrad, “The Secret L’Hérésiarque et Cie; Sydney Porter (O. -South Africa: Louis Sharer”; -Colette Willy, La Henry) (b. 1862). LATE WINTER 1910 Botha is the first prime Lives briefly with -M. Corelli, The Devil's Vagabonde;

George Bowden. Motor (from A -Péguy, Mistères de la minister of the recently Meets Alfred Richard Christmas Greeting); charité de Jeanne d’Arc; established Union of Orage, editor of The -W. H. Davies, Farewell Notre Jeunesse; South Africa (dominion to Poesy; -Louis Pergaud, De New Age, future pupil of the British Empire) -Dobell, Century of Goupil à Margot of G.I. Gurdjieff . Sonnets; (Goncourt prize); -Russia: Tolstoy dies Publishes “The Child -Lord Dunsany, A -Marguerite Audoux, -Mexico: the Mexican Who Was Tired” in The Dreamer’s Tales and Marie-Claire; Revolution against New Age. Other Stories; -Jules Romains, Un être autocrat Porfirio Díaz Will later credit Orage -Ford Madox Ford, A en marche; breaks out. as being the person Call: the Tale of Two -Cocteau, Le Prince Passions; The Portrait; frivole. who “taught her how to -E. M. Forster, Howards write.” End; -Kipling, Rewards and MARCH 1910 Fairies. After an attack of -Ezra Pound, Provenca; peritonitis, undergoes The Spirit of Romance; operation to remove -Fiona MacLeod (W. Sharp), The Dominion of infected Fallopian tube. Dreams Under the Dark Ida nurses her back to Star; Poems and health at Rottingdean. Dramas; -G. B. Shaw, Misalliance SUMMER 1910 (publ. 1914); The Dark Befriended by Orage Lady of the Sonnets and his mistress, South (publ. 1914); Treatise on Parents and Children; African writer, Beatrice -H. G. Wells, The History Hastings, caustic critic of Mr Polly; The Sleeper for the New Age, future Awakes (revised edition 50

lover and model of of When the Sleeper Amedeo Modigliani. Awakes); "Little Mother House-sits a flat in Up the Morderberg"; "My First Aeroplane"; Cheyne Walk. -Yeats, The Green Becomes friends with Helmet and Other William Orton with Poems; he is manager of whom she keeps a the Abbey Theatre. journal. Orton will depict her in his autobiographical novel, The Last Romantic which includes passages apparently written by KM.

NOVEMBER 1910 Post-Impressionist Exhibition opens in London, with works by Van Gogh, Gaugin, Picasso, Matisse. KM will be among the many visitors.

JANUARY 1911 1911 1911 1911 1911 1911 Moves to 69 Clovelly -M. Beerbohm, Zuleika -Paul Claudel, L’Otage; -Edith Wharton -Alfred North -Britain: Parliament Act; Mansions in Gray’s Inn Dobson; Cartoons: The -Leroux, Chéri-Bibi; publishes Ethan Frome; Whitehead, An National Insurance Act. 51

Road. Second childhood of -Guitry, Le veilleur de -Theodore Dreiser, Introduction to The House of Lords in John Bull; nuit; Jennie Gerhardt; Mathematics; Great Britain gave up its SPRING 1911 -A. C. Benson, The Child -Jules Romains, Mort de -Novelist and veto power: the House of the Dawn; Paul the quelqu’un; progressive journalist May have been of Commons becomes Minstrel and Other -Feydeau, Occupe-toi David Graham is killed pregnant again. Ida Stories; d’Amélie; in New York. the more powerful Baker recounts the -M. E. Braddon, The -Péguy, Victor-Marie, -“The Masses” (N. Y.); House. First national episode in The Green Curtain; Comte Hugo; Le porche -James, The Outcry; railway strike. The first Memories of LM. -G. K. Chesterton, The du mystère de la escalators in Britain are Ballad of the White deuxième vertu; installed at Earls Court JUNE 22, 1911 Horse; The Innocence Of -Jacob, Saint-Matorel; underground station in Father Brown; Wit and -Alphonse de Coronation of George V London. Suffragettes Wisdom of G. K. Châteaubriant, attended by the Chesterton; Monsieur des Lourdines stormed Parliament in Beauchamp family with Appreciations and (Goncourt prize); London. whom she is reunited. Criticisms of the Works -Louis de Robert, Le -Portugal: women are Re-establishes ties with of Charles Dickens; roman du malade; granted suffrage younger brother Leslie, -Conrad, Under Western -Georges de Porto- -Russia: the prime “Chummie”. Eyes; "A Smile of Riche, Le Vieil Homme. minister Peter Stolypin Fortune"; "Prince is killed by a Roman"; DECEMBER 1911 -M. Corelli, The Life revolutionary Publication of In a Everlasting; -Morocco, Germany, German Pension. -W. H. Davies, Songs of France: Second Submits “The Woman at Joy and Others; A Weak Moroccan Crisis (also the Store,” New Zealand Woman known as Agadir Crisis). -F. Madox Ford, Ladies murder story to Germany obtains Whose Bright Eyes; The Rhythm, avant-garde Critical Attitude; Ancient territories in Congo. magazine edited by Lights and Certain New -Italy: Giovanni Giolitti John Middleton Murry. Reflections; is prime minister for the 52

Meets Murry at dinner -Forster, The Celestial fourth time. Italy party organized by W.L. Omnibus (and other annexes Tripolitania, George. stories); Cyrenaica, and Libya -Hornung, The Camera (from the Ottoman Fiend; -Kipling, A History of Empire) England; -China: the Xinhai -David Herbert Revolution or Hsinhai Lawrence, The White Revolution (also known Peacock; as the 1911 Revolution -John Masefield, The or the Chinese Everlasting Mercy; Revolution) ends with -birth of Flann O’Brien; -Pound, Canzoni; the abdication of -Fiona MacLeod (W. Emperor Puyi. Sun Yat- Sharp), The Silence of sen is elected as the Amor. Where the Forest provisional president of Murmurs; the Republic of China. -G. B. Shaw, Fanny's -Mexico: lots of First Play (publ. 1914); Mexicans start -Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm; emigrating to the US. F. -H. G. Wells, The New Madero is elected Machiavelli; "The president Obliterated Man"; The Door in the Wall and Other Stories; The Country of the Blind and Other Stories;

APRIL 1912 1912 1912 1912 1912 1912 Murry moves in as KM’s -William Allingham, By -Claudel, L’Annonce -birth of Irish writer -“Futurist” exhibition in -Britain: the Liberals lodger at 69 Clovelly the Way; faite à Marie; Mary Lavin (in Paris; introduce a Home Rule Mansions, occupying -M. Beerbohm, A -Blaise Cendrars, Massachusetts) -Carl Gustav Jung, The Bill (Irish question); the Christmas Garland; Pâques à New York; -Edith Wharton, The Psychology of the first British National “the Buddha room” at -G. K. Chesterton, -Saint-John Perse, Reef; Unconscious; Health Insurance 7s.6d a month. This Simplicity and Tolstoy; A Éloges; -Willa Cather, -Vanessa Bell, Studland payments are made. period is vividly Miscellany Of Men; -Péguy, Le Mystère des Alexander’s Bridge; Beach; Sinking of the Titanic in described in Murry’s Manalive; Saints Innocents; -Theodore Dreiser, The -G. E. Moore, Ethics; the North Atlantic autobiography, -Conrad, "Freya of the -Pergaud, La Guerre des Financier; -Russell, The Problems Ocean, off the coasts of Between Two Worlds. Seven Isles"; ‘Twixt boutons; -Sui-Sin Far (Edith of Philosophy; Newfoundland. The Land and Sea; -Georges Courteline, Maude Eaton), Mrs. Royal Flying Corps

-W. H. Davies, The True Les Linottes; Spring Fragrance; (predecessor of the SPRING 1912 Traveller; -France, Les Dieux ont -Zane Grey, Riders of RAF) is established in Becomes assistant -Walter de la Mare, The soif; the Purple Sage; England. The British editor of Rhythm. Listeners; -Leroux, Rouletabille -James Weldon Johson, House of Lords oppose Attacked by Hastings -Doyle, The Lost World; chez le Tsar; The Autobiography of the House of Commons and Orage in The New The Terror of Blue John -Guitry, Un beau an Ex-Colored Man; by rejecting home rule Age. Gap; mariage; -Mary Antin, The for Ireland. Leonard -Lord Dunsany, The -André Savignon, Les Promised Land; Woolf marries Virginia

Book of Wonder; Filles de la pluie -Founding of Poetry Duckworth. AUGUST 1912 -Ford Madox Ford, The (Goncourt prize); magazine. -Austria-Hungary: Forced with Murry to New Humpty Dumpty; -Jacques Morel, Les Stephen Tisza, leader of leave Clovelly Mansions The Panel: A Sheer Feuilles mortes; the Hungarian National because they are not Comedy; -Julien Benda, Party of Work, is married. -Hardy, "The L’Ordination; elected president of the Convergence of the -Charles Vildrac, Twain (Lines on the Loss Découverte; Hungarian chamber. SEPTEMBER 1912 of the ''Titanic')."; -Alexandre Mercereau, -Italy: male suffrage Moves with Murry to -Hornung, Fathers of Les Contes des ténèbres; approved. Runcton Cottage near Men; -Cocteau, La Danse de -The Balkans. Treaty of 54

Chichester. -Kipling, Collected Verse Sophocle Lausanne between Italy Quarrel with Henri (British edition) and and the Ottoman Gaudier and Sophie Songs from Books; Empire. -Lawrence, The Brzeska. -US: the Democrat Trespasser; Receives uninvited -Alfred Edward Marsh Woodrow Wilson wins guest, Floryan edits the anthology the US presidential Sobieniowski. Georgian Poetry (1st election volume); -Argentina: universal OCTOBER 1912 -Ezra Pound, Ripostes; male suffrage granted The publisher of translation of Guido -Morocco: treaty of Fez Cavalcanti’s poems (The Rhythm goes bankrupt. (Morocco becomes a Sonnets and ballate of KM pledges annual Guido Cavalcanti); French protectorate). income from her father -Vita Sackville-West, A -China: 1 January 1912 to pay back a printer’s Dancing Elf; is set as the first day of debt for four years. -Fiona MacLeod (W. the First Year of the Sharp), The Divine Republic. Sun Yat-sen Moves with Murry back Adventure. Iona. Studies founds the Kuomintang in Spiritual History; to London to dreary -W. Sharp, Poems; digs in Chancery Lane, Studies and furnished with a camp Appreciations; Papers bed, two chairs, and a Critical and packing case. They Reminiscent; Literary struggle to keep the Geography and Travel- magazine afloat. Sketches; Vistas (repr.); -G. B. Shaw, Androcles Contributors include and the Lion (publ. Hugh Walpole and DH 1914); Overruled (publ. Lawrence. 1916); Pygmalion 55

(1912-13; publ. 1914); CHRISTMAS 1912 -death of Bram Stoker; Spends Christmas in -Giles Lytton Strachey, Paris with Murry. Landmarks in French Literature;

-H. G. Wells, Marriage;

MARCH 1913 1913 1913 1913 1913 1913 In need of fresh air, KM -M. Beerbohm, Fifty -Proust, Du côté de chez -Edith Wharton -John Maynard Keynes, -UK: British House of rents a house in the Caricatures; Swann ; publishes Custom of the Indian Currency and Commons accept -Mary Elizabeth -Jules Romains, Les Country; country in Finance; Home-Rule Law. British Braddon, Miranda; Copains ; -Willa Cather, O -design enterprise Buckinghamshire where suffragette Emily -G. K. Chesterton, -Apollinaire, Alcools ; Pioneers!; Omega Workshops is Murry is to join her on Magic; The Victorian Les Peintres Cubistes ; -Ellen Glasgow, Virginia; founded; Pankhurst is sentenced weekends. Age in Literature; La Peinture moderne ; -Robert Frost, A Boy’s -Sidney and Beatrice to 3 years in jail (for They find the separation -Conrad, Chance; L’Antitradition futuriste, Will; Webb found The New inciting persons to place stressful. -W. H. Davies, Foliage: manifeste synthèse ; -Jack London, The Valley Statesman explosives outside the Various Poems; -Colette, L’Envers du of the Moon; house of the chancellor -Doyle, The Poison Belt; music-hall , -Henry James, A Small MAY 1913 of the Exchequer, David The Horror of the L’Entrave ; Boy and Others; Rhythm becomes the Lloyd George). Heights; -Péguy, L’Argent; La -Oscar Micheaux, The short-lived Blue Review -F. Madox Ford, Mr. Tapisserie de Sainte Conquest: The Story of a -US: the US Congress and publishes a story Fleight; Henry James, A Geneviève et de Jeanne negro Pioneer; passes the Glass-Owen by DH Lawrence, “The Critical Study; d'Arc; La Tapisserie de -“Vanity Fair”; Currency Act (Federal Soiled Rose”. -Forster starts writing Notre-Dame; Ève; - William Carlos Reserve Bank Act), Maurice (published -Alain-Fournier, Le Williams, The Tempers. establishing a Federal posthumously in 1971); Grand Meaulnes ; JUNE 1913 Reserve Board -Weedon Grossmith, -Martin du Gard, Jean Friendship develops -The Balkans: Second From Studio to Stage; Barois ; with DH Lawrence and -Hardy, “A Changed -Barrès, La Colline Balkan War. Frieda. Man” and Other Tales inspirée ; -Turkey: the Young 56

Murry later describes (Macmillan ed.); Poems -Cendrars, La Prose du Turks (CUP) seize the foursome swimming of 1912-1913; Transsibérien ; power. naked in a lake and -Hornung, The -Péguy, La Tapisserie de -China: Yuan Shih-k’ai's Thousandth Woman; Notre-Dame ; feasting on steak and crackdown on the -Lawrence, Sons and -Zévaco, Les Pardaillans tomatoes. This Lovers; Love Poems and (suite) ; Kuomintang begins relationship will partly Others; -Valery Larbaud, A. O. -Mexico: Huerta provide inspiration for - Vachel Lindsay, Barnabooth ; establishes a military Lawrence’s novel, General William Booth -Segalen, Stèles ; dictatorship. Women in Love, with Enters Into Heaven; -Marcel Tendron (pen KM serving as a model -Fiona MacLeod (W. name : Marc Elder), Le Sharp), The Winged Peuple de la mer for Gudrun and Murry Destiny. Studies in the (Goncourt prize) ; for Gerald. Spiritual History of the -Camille Marbo, La Gael; Statue voilée ; JULY 1913 -G. B. Shaw, Beauty's -Léon Werth, La Maison Moves with Murry to Duty (publ. 1934); Great Blanche ; Baron’s Court, Catherine (publ. 1919); -Paul Éluard, Premiers described by Ida as “a The Music Cure (publ. Poèmes. 1926); suburban flatlet with -A. Symons, The Knave communal gardens at of Hearts: 1894-1908; the back.” Murry -H. G. Wells, The occupies the study Passionate Friends; The while KM works on the Star. dining table.

NOVEMBER 1913 Completes opening chapters of “Maata”. 57

DECEMBER 1913 Moves with Murry to 31 Rue de Tournon, Paris. Is attracted to bohemian writer Francis Carco. Writes “Something Childish but Very Natural.”

FEBRUARY 1914 1914 1914 1914 1914 1914 Leaves Paris with Murry -G. K. Chesterton, The -Gide, Les Caves du -Theodore Dreiser, The -Russell, Our Knowledge -Outbreak of World War after he is declared Wisdom Of Father Vatican; Titan; of the External World as I bankrupt and returns to Brown; The Flying Inn; -Carco, Jésus-la-Caille; -Henry James, Notes of a Field for Scientific Trial of John Jasper, Lay -France, La Révolte des a Son and Brother; Method in Philosophy; London. Precentor of anges; Notes on Novelists; Carco helps them Cloisterham Cathedral -Bourget, Le Démon de -Gertrude Stein, Tender dispose of their in the County of Kent, midi; Buttons; furniture by selling it to for the Murder of Edwin -Adrien Bertrand, -Vachel Lindsay, The brothels Drood; London; L’Appel du sol Congo; Ida sends money by -M. Corelli, Innocent; (Goncourt prize -Carl Sandburg, Chicago; -W. H. Davies, Nature; awarded in 1916); -Frank Norris, Vandover post, tearing a five- The Bird of Paradise; -Estaunié, Les choses and the Brute; pound note in half and -Doyle, The British voient; -Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. enclosing it in two Campaign in France and -Péguy, Note conjointe Wrenn; separate envelopes to Flanders: 1914; sur M. Bergson et la -Ambrose Bierce (b. make sure it would not -death of Bertram philosophie 1842) disappears in be stolen by postal Dobell; bergsonienne; Mexico and is presumed

workers. -F. Madox Ford, - Paul Éluard, Le dead; Collected Poems; Dailogue des inutiles ; -Death of S. Weir APRIL 1914 -Hardy, “A Changed -Romains, Sur les quais Mitchell (b. 1829); Moves with Murry to Man” and Other Tales de la Villette. -Death of Sui-Sin Far (Wessex ed.); Satires of (Edith Maude Eaton). Fulham (102 Edith Circumstance; Grove). -Hornung, The Crime Doctor; JULY, 1914 -Joyce, Dubliners; Moves with Murry to -Lawrence, The Prussian Chelsea (111 Arthur Officer and Other Street). Stories; The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd; Study of

Thomas Hardy and JULY 13, 1914 Other Essays; KM and Murry are -Wyndham Lewis witnesses at the founds “Vorticist” wedding of DH movement; Lawrence and Frieda. -birth of Patrick O’Brian; -Founding of Blast and Egoist; AUGUST 4, 1914 -Ezra Pound organizes War is declared. the Imagists; Pound and Thomas Ernest Hulme(ed.), Des Imagistes: an Anthology; -G. B. Shaw, Common Sense about the War; -birth of Dylan Thomas; -H. G. Wells, The Wife of 59

Sir Isaac Harman; The World Set Free; -Yeats, Responsibilities.

OCTOBER 1914 –FEB 1915 1915 1915 1915 1915 Moves with Murry to -Georgian Poetry; Nobel Prize to Romain -T. S. Eliot, “The Love -death of the sculptor Rose Tree Cottage in -Death of Rupert Rolland Song of J. Alfred Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Brooke; -Claudel, Corona Prufrock”; (co-founder of Blast) Buckinghamshire close -Rupert Brooke, 1914 benignitatis anni dei; -Edgar Lee Masters, to the Lawrences, and Other Poems; -Apollinaire, Case Spoon River Anthology; whose frequent -G. K. Chesterton, d’Armons; -Willa Cather, The Song quarrels create a Poems; Wine, Water -Pierre Reverdy, Poèmes of the Lark; strained atmosphere. And Song; The Appetite en prose. -Margaret Deland, First meeting with of Tyranny; The Crimes Around Old Chester; of England; -Theodore Dreiser, The Kotelianski. -Conrad, Victory ; “Genius”; In Between Two Worlds Within the Tides; -Dorothy Canfield Murry, describes his -Doyle, The Valley of Fisher, The Bent Twig; endless philosophical Fear; -Robert Frost, North of discussions with -Lord Dunsany, Fifty- Boston. Lawrence and Gordon One Tales; Campbell which make -F. Madox Ford, When Blood is their Argument: KM feel isolated and an Analysis of Prussian estranged. Culture; The Good Soldier; FEBRUARY 3, 1915 -Hornung, Trusty and Leslie arrives in England Well Beloved; for military training. -Lawrence, The Rainbow; 60

-Mina Loy, “Love Songs” FEBRUARY 15, 1915 (published in the debut Brief trip to France to issue of “Others”); join Carco. The episode -"Mary Postgate," The New Army in Training provides inspiration for and France in War; “An Indiscreet Journey.” -Pound, Cathay; -Dorothy Richardson, FEB 25, 1915 Pointed Roofs; Returns to Murry at -G. B. Shaw, O'Flaherty Rose Tree Cottage. VC (publ. 1920); -H. G. Wells, Bealby: A Holiday; The Research MARCH –MAY 1915 Magnificent; "The Sad Divides her time Story of a Dramatic between Murry’s flat in Critic"; "The Story of the London and Carco’s flat Last Trump"; "The Wild in Paris, near the Quai Asses of the Devil"; des Fleurs, while Carco Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of is at the front. the Devil, and The Last Begins writing “The Trump; Aloe,” reevoking her -Virginia Woolf, The New Zealand childhood. Voyage Out.

JUNE 1915 Moves with Murry to 5 Acacia Road in St John’s Wood. Receives frequent visits

from Leslie while he is stationed in England. In the garden of this house grows KM’s pear tree.

OCTOBER 7, 1915 Leslie Beauchamp is killed in France while demonstrating how to use a hand grenade. KM plunges into depression.

NOVEMBER 1915 Moves with Murry to Bandol in the south of France.

DECEMBER 7, 1915 Murry returns to London.

DECEMBER 1915 Receives a moving letter of sympathy from Lawrence consoling her

for Leslie’s death.

DECEMBER 31, 1915 - FEBRUARY 1916 Murry joins KM in 1916 1916 1916 1916 1916 Bandol at the Villa -The Egoist starts -Apollinaire, Le Poète -Carl Sandburg, Chicago -Russell, Principles of -Britain: Lloyd George serializing Tarr, by assassiné; Poems; Social Reconstruction; Prime Minister; Pauline. Wyndham Lewis; -Carco, Les Innocents; -Sherwood Anderson, Justice in War-time -Ireland: The Easter KM rewrites “The Aloe.” -A. C. Benson, Escape -Barbusse, Le Feu; Windy McPherson's Son; Rising and Other Essays; -Tzara, La première -Mark Twain, The APRIL 1916 -Mary Elizabeth aventure celeste de Mysterious Stranger; Returns to England Braddon, Mary; Monsieur Antipyrine; -William Dean Howells, with Murry and moves -G. K. Chesterton, - Paul Éluard, Le Devoir ; The Leatherwood God; to Higher Tregerthen in Divorce vs. Democracy; -Reverdy, La Lucarne -Grace King, The The Book of Job; A ovale. Pleasant Ways of St. Cornwall to be near the Shilling for My Medard; Lawrences , but finds Thoughts; Temperance -Amy Lowell, Men, their company and The Great Alliance; Women, and Ghosts; overwhelming. -W. H. Davies, Child -Ring Lardner, You Know Lovers; Collected Me Al; JUNE 1916 Poems; -H. D. (Hild Doolittle), Moves with Murry to -Lord Dunsany, Tales of Sea Garden; Wonder; -Deaths of Henry James Mylor in the south -Huxley, The Burning (b. 18439, Jack London Cornish coast. Wheel; (b. 1876), and Richard -Joyce, A Portrait of the Harding Davis (b. 1864). SEPTEMBER 1916 Artist as a Young Man; Murry starts work as a -Kipling, Sea Warfare; translator in military -Lawrence, Amores; intelligence. Twilight in Italy and Other Essays; 63

He and KM take up -Ezra Pound, Lustra; residence in Gaudier Brzeska: a Bloomsbury at 3 Gower Memoir; Certain noble plays of Japan: from the Street. manuscripts of Ernest Painter Dorothy Brett Fenollosa; "Noh", or, lived on the second Accomplishment: a floor; Dora Carrington in study of the classical the attic. stage of Japan (with Fenollosa); "The Lake AUTUMN 1916 Isle"; -G. B. Shaw, The Inca of Frequents Lady Perusalem (publ. 1919); Ottoline Morrell in Augustus Does His Bit Garsington (publ. 1919); Macbeth The circle includes: Skit (publ. 1967); Lytton-Strachey, T.S. Pygmalion; Eliot, Bertrand Russell, -A. Symons, Tragedies; Aldous Huxley among Figures of Several Centuries; others. -H. G. Wells, Mr Britling Sees it Through. NOVEMBER 1916 Friendship and correspondence with Bertrand Russell begins. First meeting with Virginia Woolf.

FEBRUARY 1917 1917 1917 1917 1917 1917 Moves to a studio at -Georgian Poetry; -Paul Valéry, Le Jeune -Edith Wharton, -Jung, The Unconscious; -Revolutions in Russia; 141a Church street in -the Woolfs founds The Parque; Summer; -Russell, Political Ideals; -America enters the Chelsea, later joined by Hogarth Press; -Apollinaire, Les -Hamlin Garland, A Son -Alfred North War; -G. K. Chesterton, Lord Mamelles de Tirésias; of the Middle Border; Whitehead, The -Britain: George V Ida. Kitchener; A Short -Duhamel, La vie des -Abraham Cahan, The Organization of Thought decrees that the Royal Murry moves to 47 History of England; martyrs; Rise of David Levinsky; Educational and family would be known Redcliffe Road. -Conrad, The Shadow -Claudel, L’Ours et la -Sinclair Lewis, The Job; Scientific; by the surname of Friendship develops Line; “The Tale”; “The Lune; -Edna St. Vincent Millay, -Wyndham Lewis is Windsor with Virginia Woolf. Warrior’s Soul”; -Jacob, Le Cornet à dés; Renascence; appointed as an official -Doyle, His Last Bow; -Philippe Soupault, -T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and war artist -T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Aquarium; Other Observations; APRIL 1917 Other Observations; -Georges de Porto- -David Graham Phillips, Begins writing for the -Hardy, Moments of Riche, Le Marchand Susan Lenox: Her Fall New Age again. Vision; d’estampes; and Rise; Proposes “Prelude” to -Hornung, Ballad of - Paul Éluard, Le Devoir -Oscar Micheaux, The the Hogarth Press. Ensign Joy; et l’Inquiétude. Homesteader; -death of Thomas -Giraudoux, Lectures -Pulitzer Prizes WINTER 1917 Ernest Hulme; pour une ombre. established; -Huxley, Jonah; -H. D., The God; Discovers spot on right -Kipling, A Diversity of - William Carlos lung. Creatures; Williams, Al Que Quiere;

-Lawrence, Look! We -James, The Ivory Tower have come through!; (unfinished); The Sense -Pound, Twelve of the Past (unfinished). Dialogues of Fontenelle; -Vita Sackville-West, Poems of West and East; -Siegfried Sassoon, Huntsman; 65

-G. B. Shaw, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (publ. 1919); -H. G. Wells, The Soul of a Bishop.

JANUARY – 1918 1918 1918 1918 1918 FEBRUARY 1918 -G. K. Chesterton, How -Giraudoux, Simon le -Willa Cather, My -Debussy dies; -Votes for women aged Returns alone to Bandol to Help Annexation; pathéthique; Antonia; -Rutherford splits the thirty and over in to the Hotel Beau -M. Corelli, The Young -Duhamel, Civilisation -Edith Wharton, The atom; Britain; Diana; 1914-1917; Mame; -Vanessa Bell, The Tub; -universal male Rivage. -W. H. Davies, A Poet's -Proust, A l’ombre des -Henry Adams, The -G. E. Moore, Some suffrage; Begins writing “Je Ne Pilgrimage (or A jeunes filles en fleur; Education of Henry Judgments of -end of World War I; Parle Pas Français”. Pilgrimage In Wales); -Claudel, Le Pain dur; Adams; Perceptions; -Ireland: 69 Sinn Fein Ida arrives in Bandol. Forty New Poems; -Cendrars, Le Panama -Mary E. Wilkins -Russell, Mysticism and MPs refuse to attend Has first lung Raptures; ou Les Aventures de Freeman, Edgewater Logic and Other Essays; Parliament and declare hemorrhage. -Doyle, Danger! And Mes Sept Oncles; People; Proposed Roads to themselves the elected Other Stories; -Apollinaire, -Booth Tarkington, The Freedom: Socialism, assembly of the Irish -Lord Dunsany, Tales of Calligrammes; Couleur Magnificent Ambersons; Anarchism and people. MARCH 1918 War du temps; L’esprit -O. Henry Award for the Syndicalism; Flees to Paris with Ida -Ford Madox Ford, On nouveau et les poètes; short story established. -Tristan Tzara, where they are trapped Heaven, and Poems -Valery Larbaud, Manifeste Dada. by the German written on Active Enfantines; bombardment. Service; -Tzara, Vingt-cinq -Gerard Manley poems; Hopkins’s poetry is -Cocteau, Le Coq et APRIL 11,1918 published: The Poems of l'Arlequin; Returns to London with Gerard Manley Hopkins - Paul Éluard, Poèmes Ida. (notes and introduction pour la paix ; by Robert Bridges); -Jacob, Le 66

MAY 3, 1918 -Hornung, Wooden Phanérogame ; KM and Murry are Cross; -Giraudoux, Simon le married at the -Huxley, The Defeat of Pathétique. Kensington Registery Youth; -Joyce, Exiles; Office. -Lawrence, New Poems: KM wears Frieda - Wyndham Lewis, The Lawrence’s wedding Tarr (book-form); ring from her first -Mary MacCarthy, A Pier marriage. and a Band; -Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; MAY-JUNE 1918 -death of Wilfred Owen; Spends six weeks in -Pound, Pavannes and Cornwall with Anne Divisions; Estelle Rice. -Siegfried Sassoon, “Glory of Women”; AUGUST 8, 1918 Counterattack; Annie Beauchamp dies -Strachey, Eminent Victorians: Cardinal in Wellington. Manning, Florence

Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, August 1918 General Gordon; Moves with Murry to 2 -A. Symons, Colour Portland Villas, “the Studies in Paris; elephant” in -Arthur Waley, A Hampstead. Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems; Ida comes to live with -H. G. Wells, Joan and them as housekeeper. Peter: A Story of an Education; "Peter 67

NOVEMBER 11, 1918 Learns Arithmetic". End of World War I.

FEBRUARY 1919 1919 1919 1919 1919 1919 Murry becomes editor -M. Beerbohm, Seven -Gide, La Symphonie -Pulitzer Prizes: For -Picasso, “Pierrot and -Treaty of Versailles of The Athenaeum. Men; Pastorale; literature--Booth Arlequin”; -G. K. Chesterton, Irish -Breton founds special Tarkington, The -Renoir dies; Impressions; Littérature; Magnificent Ambersons; -Keynes, The Economic APRIL 1919 -Conrad, The Arrow of -Claudel, Les Coéphores for biography--Henry Consequences of Peace; Begins reviewing for Gold; d’Eschyle; La Messe là- Adams, The Education -Russell, Introduction to The Athenaeum. -M. Corelli, My Little Bit; bas. of Henry Adams; Mathematical Begins translating -Lord Dunsany, Tales of -Soupault, Rose des -Sherwood Anderson, Philosophy; Chekhov’s letters with Three Hemispheres; vents; Winesburg,Ohio; -Omega closes; Koteliansky. Unhappy Far-Off Things; -Cocteau, Ode à Picasso -H. D., Notes on -Bergson, L’Énergie -Hardy, Collected - Le Cap de Bonne- Thought and Vision spirituelle.

Poems; Espérance; SEPTEMBER 1919 -Hornung, Notes of a -Reverdy, La Guitare Travels to San Remo Camp-Follower on the endormie; with Murry and Ida. Western Front; The -Jules Supervielle, After Murry’s Ballad of Ensign; The Poèmes de l’humour departure, moves with Young Guard; triste; Ida to the Casetta -Kipling, The Graves of -Giraudoux, Amica the Fallen and The Years America; Deerholm in Between; -Duhamel, La Possession Ospedaletti. -Lawrence, Bay: a book du monde; of poems; -Giraudoux, Elpénor. NOVEMBER 1919 -John Masefield, Receives visit from Reynard the Fox; Harold Beauchamp and -Pound, Quia Pauper his cousin Connie. Amavi; The Fourth Canto; 68

-Vita Sackville-West, MID-DECEMBER Heritage; 1919 -Fiona MacLeod (W. Murry joins KM in Sharp), Poems and Dramas (republished); Ospedaletti. -G. B. Shaw, Heartbreak House (1913-19; publ. 1919); -Arthur Waley, Japanese Poetry: The Uta; -H. G. Wells, The Undying Fire; -Woolf, Night and Day; Modern Fiction -Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole; -Georgian Poetry.

JANUARY 1920 1920 1920 1920 1920 1920 Travels with Ida to -M. Beerbohm, Herbert -Apollinaire, La femme -Edith Wharton, The -Dada festival in Paris; -Partition established in France and enters a Beerbohm Tree; And assise; Age of Innocence; -Russell, The Practice Government of Ireland L’Hermitage, a clinic in Even Now; - Aragon, Feu de joie; -Edith Wharton, In and Theory of Act; -G. K. Chesterton, The Soupault (with André Morocco; Bolshevism; Menton. Superstition of Divorce; Breton), Les Champs -Sinclair Lewis, Main Receives insulting letter The Uses of Diversity; magnétiques; Street; from DH Lawrence. The New Jerusalem; -Montherlant, Le relève -F. Scott Fitzgerald, This -Conrad, The Rescue; du matin; Side of Paradise; FEBRUARY 1920 -M. Corelli, A Love of -Proust, Le côté des -Anzia Yezierska, Goes to live at Villa Long Ago; Guermantes; Hungry Hearts; -W. H. Davies, The Song -Valéry, Le cimetière -Ezra Pound, Hugh Flora with Cousin of Life; marin; Odes; Album des Selwyn Mauberly; 69

Connie and companion, -De La Mare, Poems vers anciens; -Eugene O'Neill, The Jinnie Fullerton. 1901-18; -Claudel, Le Père Emperor Jones; -Eliot, The Sacred Wood; humilié; Les Euménides -Robert Frost, Mountain -Fry, Vision and Design; d’Eschyle; Protée; Interval; APRIL, 1920 -Huxley, Limbo; Leda; -Valery Larbaud, -Death of William Dean Returns with Ida to the -Kipling, Horace Odes, Beauté, mon beau souci Howells (b. 1837); Elephant in Hampstead. Book V and Letters of (1920-1923); - William Carlos Travel; -Duhamel, La Williams, Kora in Hell. SEPTEMBER 1920 -Lawrence, Women in Confession de minuit; Improvisations; Travels with Ida to Love; -Cocteau, Escale. -H. D., Translations. France, residing at Villa The Lost Girl; Poésies (1917-1920); Touch and Go; Carte blanche; Isola Bella in Menton. -Wilfred Owen, Poems -Radiguet, Les Joues en

(posthumous); feu; AUTUMN 1920 -Pound, Umbra; -Roger Martin du Gard Sobieniowski blackmails Hugh Selwyn starts Les Thibault; KM over youthful love Mauberley; - Paul Éluard, Les letters. -G. B. Shaw, A Glimpse Animaux et leurs Assisted by Ida, works of the Domesticity of hommes, les hommes et Franklin Barnabas (publ. leurs animaux ; Onze intensely on reviews 1932); Haï-kaïs ; and short stories, -A. Symons, Lesbia and -Jacob, Le Cinématoma including “Miss Brill” Other Poems; Charles (1920-1929) ; and “The Daughters of Baudelaire: A Study. -Giraudoux, Adorable the Late Colonel,” Clio ; partially modeled on -Jacques de Lacretelle, Ida. La Vie inquiète de Jean Hermelin. Learns of Murry’s liaison with Elizabeth Bibiesco.

DECEMBER 2, 1920 Publication of Bliss and Other Stories.

DECEMBER 1920 Murry joins her for Christmas in Menton.

MAY 1921-JANUARY 1921 1921 1921 1921 1921 1922 -M. Beerbohm, A -Breton and Soupault, -Francis Scott Fitzgerald, -Russell, The Analysis of -British Broadcasting Moves to Montreux, Survey; Les champs Flappers and Mind; Corporation established Switzerland with Ida. -M. Corelli, The Secret magnétiques; Philosophers (stories); -Wyndham Lewis’s -the British government Power; -Aragon, Anicet ou le -John Dos Passos, Three exhibition, Tyros and make a treaty with Irish Moves to Chateau Belle -W. H. Davies, The Panorama; Soldiers; Portraits; rebels and Ireland is Vue, Sierre where she is Captive Lion and Other -Giraudoux, Suzanne et -Sherwood Anderson, divided into two parts. joined by Murry. Poems; The Soul's le Pacifique; The Triumph of the Egg; Irish Free State (under Moves with Murry to Destroyer; Form (ed -Proust, Sodome et “The Egg”; the British rule). The Chalet des Sapins ( Davies and Austin O Gomorrhe; - awarded Pulitzer Prize treaty is not accepted Montana-sur-Sierre), Spare, Vol 1, Numbers -Reverdy, Étoiles for Edith Wharton’s by the assembly in 1, 2 & 3, 1921/1922) peintes; novel, The Age of near her cousin Dublin. -Walter de la Mare, The -Nobel prize to Anatole Innocence; Elizabeth. Veil; France; - William Carlos Writes “At the Bay,” -Ford Madox Ford, Thus -Jacques Chardonne, Williams, Sour Grapes; “The Garden Party,”and to Revisit, Some L’Épithalame; - James Joyce's Ulysses “The Doll’s House”. Reminiscences. -trial of Barrès; is published in Paris; Obtains the address of -Huxley, Chrome Yellow; -Jules Romains, Amour 500 copies imported to Russian doctor Ivan -Lawrence, Tortoises; couleur de Paris; America are seized by Movements in European -Estaunié, L’Ascension the U. S. Post Office as Manoukhin from History; Psychoanalysis de M. Baslèvre; obscene material and 71

Koteliansky. and the Unconscious; -Valery Larbaud, burned; Reads Cosmic Anatomy. Sea and Sardinia; Amants, heureux -Marianne Moore, -Pound, Poems, 1918– amants; Poems; 1921; -Cocteau, Les Mariés de -H. D., Hymen; Paint It

-Vita Sackville-West, la tour Eiffel; Today (publ. 1992); Orchard and Vineyard; - Paul Éluard, Les Asphodel (publ. 1992). -G. B. Shaw, Back to Nécessités de la vie et Methuselah (1918-20; les conséquences des publ. 1921); rêves ; Exemples ; -Lytton Strachey, Queen -Jacob, Le Laboratoire Victoria; central ; Le Roi de -Arthur Waley, The No Béotie ;

Plays of Japan; -Radiguet, Les Pélican ; -H. G. Wells, "The Grisly « Denise » ; Folk"; -Mauriac, Préséances. -Woolf, Monday or Tuesday; -Yeats, Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

JANUARY 30, 1922 1922 1922 1922 1922 1922 Leaves for Paris with -G. K. Chesterton, -Colette, La maison de -Francis Scott Fitzgerald, -Russell, The Problem of -Ireland: civil war (1922- Ida. Eugenics and Other Claudine; The Beautiful and China; 23) Evils; The Ballad of St. -Valéry, Charmes; Damned; Tales of Jazz -Bergson, Durée et Barbara and Other -Romains, Lucienne; Age; simultanéité; FEBRUARY – MAY Poems; The Man Who -Proust dies; - T. S. Eliot, The Waste 1922 Knew Too Much; What I -Claudel, Poèmes de Land (1921-1922); Decides to try Saw in America; guerre (1914-1916); -Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt; Manoukhin’s X-ray -W. H. Davies, The Hour -Estaunié, L’Appel de la - Anzia Yezierska, treatment Murry joins of Magic (illustrated by route; Solitudes; Salome of the her in Paris; Ida returns Sir William Nicholson); -Valery Larbaud, Mon Tenements; to Switzerland. Shorter Lyrics of the plus secret conseil; - Eugene O'Neill, The Twentieth Century, -Soupault, Westwego Hairy Ape; Publication of The 1900-1922 (anthology); (1917-1922); -Willa Cather, One of Garden Party and Other -Lord Dunsany, Don -Aragon, Les Aventures Ours; Stories. Rodriguez: Chronicles of de Télémaque; -Edith Wharton, The Finds treatment Shadow Valley; -Cocteau, Vocabulaire; Glimpses of the Moon; debilitating. -Eliot, The Waste Land; Antigone; Le Secret - Katherine Anne Porter, Writes “The Fly”. he founds The Criterion; professionnel; "Maria Conception" -Forster, Alexandria: A -Martin du Gard, Le (Century); History and Guide; Cahier gris; Le - T. S. Eliot founds June, 1922 -Galsworthy, The Penitencier; Criterion magazine Returns to Switzerland, Forsyte Saga; - Paul Éluard, (1922-1939); near Randogne with -Hardy, Late Lyrics and Répétitions ; Les -Booth Tarkington wins Murry. Earlier with Many Other Malheurs des the Pulitzer Prize for Moves to Sierre with Verses; immortels ; Alice Adams; Ida. -Alfred Edward -Supervielle, -e. e. Cummings, The Débarcadères ; Housman, A Shropshire Enormous Room; Land; Last Poems; -Giraudoux, Siegfried et AUGUST 1922 -Huxley, Mortal Coils; le Limousin ; Returns to London with -Joyce, Ulysses; -Jacques de Lacretelle, 73

Murry and Ida. Stays -Lawrence, Aaron’s Rod; Silbermann ; with Dorothy Brett. England, my England -Mauriac, Le Baiser au Meets Orage. and Other Stories; lépreux. Fantasia of the

Unconscious; SEPTEMBER 1922 -Pound, The Natural Attends Ouspensky’s Philosophy of Love (by lectures. Rémy de Gourmont, Obtains the address of translations); the Institute for the -Lytton Strachey, Books Harmonious and Characters; -H. G. Wells, The Secret Development of Man in Places of the Heart; Fontainebleau from Tales of the Ouspensky. Unexpected; Rossetti and His Circle; OCTOBER 2, 1922 -Woolf, Jacob’s Room; Travels with Ida to Paris. -Georgian Poetry.

OCTOBER 14,1922 Examined by Dr. James C. Young, pupil of Gurdjieff.

OCTOBER 16,1922 Enters the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, not as a pupil but as a

guest, or special visitor. She will be befriended by Olgivanna, future wife of Frank Lloyd Wright, who will later publish a memoir of her friendship with KM in The Bookman, 1931 and by Alexandre de Salzmann and his wife, Jeanne. Ouspensky recounts a conversation at the institute with KM in In Search of the Miraculous. Orage will also publish his account of her life there in Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau in The Century, 1924.

JANUARY 9,1923 1923 1923 1923 1923 After Murry’s arrival at -M. Beerbohm, Things -Estaunié, L’Infirme aux -Edith Wharton receives -Keynes, Tract on the institute for a visit, New and Old; mains de lumière; Yale honorary award of Monetary Reform; KM climbs a flight of -G. K. Chesterton, St. -Raymond Radiguet, Le Doctor of Letters; 75

stairs, hemorrhages and Francis of Assisi; Poems; Diable au Corps; death - Willa Cather, A Lost dies. -Conrad (with Madox of Radiguet; Lady; Ford), The Nature of a -Cocteau, La Rose de - Wallace Stevens, Crime; François - Plain-Chant; Harmonium; The Rover; Le Grand écart - Thomas - William Carlos -M. Corelli, Love and l'imposteur; Williams, Spring and All; The Philosopher; -Martin du Gard, La Go Go; -W. H. Davies, True Belle Saison; The Great American Travellers. A Tramp's -Marcel Arland, Terres Novel; Opera in Three Acts étrangères; - Jean Toomer, Cane ; (illustrated by Sir -Mauriac, Fleuves de -e. e. Cummings, Tulips William Nicholson); feu. and Chimneys; Collected Poems, 1st -Hemingway, Three Series; Collected Poems, Stories and Ten Poems. 2nd Series; Selected Poems; `Poets and Critics'; What I Gained and Lost By Not Staying At School; -Doyle, Tales of Terror & Mystery; -F. Madox Ford, The Marsden Case; -Forster, Pharos and Pharillon (A Novelist's Sketchbook of Alexandria Through the Ages); -Hardy, The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall; 76

-Hornung, Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores; -Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay; On the Margin; -Kipling, The Irish Guards in the Great War and Land and Sea; -Lawrence, Kangaroo; The Fox, The Captain’s Doll, The Ladybird; Birds, Beasts and Flowers; Studies in Classic American Literature; Translation of Mastro-Don Gesualdo; -Mina Loy, Lunar Baedecker [sic]; -High MacDiarmid, Annals of the Five Senses; -Pound, Indiscretions; Le Testament (one-act opera); -Vita Sackville-West, Challenge; -Shaw, Saint Joan(publ. 1924); -A. Symons, Love’s Cruelty; Dramatis Personae; translation of 77

Gioconda (by D’Annunzio); -H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods; Tales of Wonder; -Yeats is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.