Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
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Chronology
xxxvi Life Historical and Cultural Background Hardy’s mother Jemima, the single most important in fluence in his life, dies. Part of The Dynasts (epic drama in verse on Napoleon) published. Anglo-French Entente. James, The Golden Bowl At about this time Hardy meets Florence Emily Dug- dale, his future second wife, then aged . She is soon a friend of Hardy and Emma, and his part-time secretary. Increased trade-union activity. E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread Part of The Dynasts. Thirty Labour MPs are elected in General Election. Anglo-Russian Entente. Act allowing marriage with deceased wife’s sister. First London cinema. Forster, The Longest Journey Part of The Dynasts completes the work. Non-contributory state pension is set up. Forster, A Room with a View Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses . Housing and Town Planning Act (to help provide working-class housing). Labour Exchanges Act (seeking employment previously di fficult). Is awarded the Order of Merit, having previously refused a knighthood. Also receives the Freedom of Dorchester. Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V. National Insurance Act. D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock November: Emma dies, still estranged. Her death triggers the writing of Hardy’s finest love lyrics, Poems of –, about their early time together in Cornwall which he now revisits. William Morris produces first cheap Morris Oxford car. George V attends first Royal Command Variety Performance. – Publication of a major collected edition of novels and verse by Hardy: the Wessex Edition ( volumes). A Changed Man and Other Tales . A su ffragette throws herself under the King’s horse at the Derby. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Chronology xxxvii Life Historical and Cultural Background February: Hardy marries Florence Dugdale (who was hurt by the poems written about Emma after her death). Satires of Circumstance ; The Dynasts: Prologue and Epilogue . Start of First World War. A million copies of books now available in free public libraries. James Joyce, Dubliners – Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Mary, Hardy’s sister dies. His distant relative, Frank George, is killed at Gallipoli. Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out Lawrence, The Rainbow Selected Poems. Self-proclamation of an independent Irish Republic. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses . T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations First World War ends. Vote extended to men over and some women over . Those Irish who want independence set up their own parliament, the Dáil, and the Irish ‘troubles’ begin. British troops ruthlessly repress the rebels. Education Act raises the school-leaving age to and extends education for some to . Russian Revolution helps stir up working-class militancy. First satisfactory contraceptive for women is devised. – Mellstock Edition of novels and verse ( volumes). Increased social awareness is indicated by extension of National Insurance against unemployment. Lawrence, Women in Love Ireland splits into new republic and the North, which remains part of the United Kingdom. Late Lyrics and Earlier with Yüklə 1,33 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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