J. Alfred Prufrock' 1918 Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems 1918 Armistice. Franchise Act grants vote to women thirty and over 1920 D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love.
1920 Treaty of Versailles. League of Wilfred Owen, Poems
Nations formed 1921 William Butler Yeats, Michael
1921?22 Formation of Irish Free State
with Northern Ireland (Ulster) remaining
part of Great Britain 1922 Katherine Mansfield, Tlte Garden Party and Other Stories. Joyce, Ulysses. Eliot, The Waste Land.
Robartes and the Dancer
1924 Forster, A Passage to India
1927 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
1928 Women twenty-one and over granted voting rights 1929 Woolf, A Room of One's Own.
1928 Yeats, The Tower
1929 Stock market crash; Great Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
Depression begins 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany 1935 Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
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1936-39 Spanish Civil War 1936 Edward VIII succeeds George V, but abdicates in favor of his brother, crowned as George VI 1937 David Jones, In Parenthesis
1939-45 World War II
1939 Joyce, Finnegans Wake. Yeats, Last
Poems and Two Plays
1940 Fall of France. Battle of Britain 1941-45 The Holocaust 1943 Eliot, Four Quartets
1940 W. H. Auden, Another Time
1945 First atomic bombs dropped, on Orwell, Animal Farm
1945 Auden, Collected Poems. George
Japan 1946 Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances
1947 India and Pakistan become
independent nations 1948 Empire Windrush brings West Indians to U.K.
1949 Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four 1950 Apartheid laws passed in South Africa 1953 Premiere of Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot
1956 Suez Crisis 1957 Ghana becomes independent
1958 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart 1960 Nigeria becomes independent 1961 Berlin Wall erected
1962 Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
1962 Cuban missile crisis. Uganda, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago become
1964 Philip Larkin, The Whitsun
independent
Weddings
1965 U.S. troops land in South Vietnam 1966 Nadine Gordimer, The Late
1966 Barbados and Guyana become Bourgeois World. Tom Stoppard,
independent
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 1969 Apollo moon landing 1971 V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
1971 Indo-Pakistan War, leading to
creation of Bangladesh 1972 Britain enters European Common Market
1973 U.S. troops leave Vietnam 1975 Seamus Heaney, North
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