Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
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) published in volume form. Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. Irish Home Rule Act. The Woodlanders (previously serialized in Macmillan’s Magazine ) published in volume form. Hardy begins to visit London for ‘the Season’. Visit to Italy. Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Wessex Tales. Visit to Paris. Matthew Arnold dies. Chronology xxxiv Life Historical and Cultural Background London dock strike. Robert Browning dies. William Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London (exhaustive documentary account) starts publication G. B. Shaw, Fabian Essays on Socialism Ibsen, A Doll’s House staged in London Gissing, The Nether World Decline of the circulating libraries and the death of the three-volume novel. William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press. Housing of the Working Classes Act. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ibsen, Hedda Gabler Tess of the d’Urbervilles (previously serialized in censored form in The Graphic) published in volume form. It simultaneously enhances his reputation as a novelist and causes a scandal because of its advanced views on sexual conduct. A Group of Noble Dames (tales) also published. Hardy’s father, Thomas, dies. Serialized version of The Well-Beloved , entitled The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved , published in the Illustrated London News . Hardy’s estrangement from Emma increases. Death of Alfred Tennyson. Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads – Our Exploits at West Poley, a long tale for boys, published in an American periodical, The Household . Serial version of The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved ––virtually a di fferent novel from the later book version. Meets Florence Henniker, one of several society women with whom he had intense friendships. Collaborates with her on The Spectre of the Real (published ). Keir Hardie sets up the Independent Labour Party. Wilde, A Woman of No Importance Chronology xxxv Life Historical and Cultural Background Life’s Little Ironies (tales). Kipling, The Jungle Book Jude the Obscure appears in volume form: a savage attack on marriage which worsens relations with Emma. Serialized previously in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in bowdlerized form. It receives both eulogistic and vitriolic reviews. The latter are a factor in his ceasing to write novels. Oscar Wilde jailed for homosexual o ffences; serves three years. The first Bristol electric tramway. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest H. G. Wells, The Time-Machine Locomotive on the Highways Act (car speed maximum m.p.h.). Death of William Morris. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau – First collected edition: the Wessex Novels ( volumes). This includes the first book edition of Jude the Obscure. The Well-Beloved, a newly rewritten version of the serial, added to the Wessex Novels as volume XVII. From now on he only publishes the poetry he has been writing since the s. Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Existing su ffrage organizations unite as National Union of Women’s Su ffrage Societies. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion Wessex Poems and Other Verses . Hardy and Emma continue to live at Max Gate but are now estranged and ‘kept separate’. Germany begins the building of a large battle fleet. Britain responds by doing the same. Wilde released from prison. Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol – Boer War in South Africa over the Transvaal gold mines; Britain crushes the Boers. Labour Representation Committee set up to get Labour candidates into Parliament. Wilde and Ruskin die. Poems of the Past and the Present (post-dated ). Victoria dies and is succeeded by Edward VII. Macmillan becomes his publisher. James, The Wings of the Dove First manned flight by Wright brothers in the USA. Motor Car Act raises speed limit to m.p.h. James, The Ambassadors Yüklə 1,33 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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