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
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