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THE NOVEL IN ENGLAND
Dates of Publication of Some Important Fictional Works
and
Dates of Importance in History, Invention and Literature
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1900-1970
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1900 One of Joseph Conrad's most complex books, LORD JIM, is published.
In Germany, Max Planck's quantum theory comes into being,
revolutionizing physics while in Austria Freud's book
INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS marks the beginning of psychoanalysis.
1901 Rudyard Kipling's KIM and Philip Barrie's QUALITY STREET appear.
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1901-1910 Reign of Edward VII
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1902 Henry James publishes THE WINGS OF THE DOVE.
1903 Samuel Butler's THE WAY OF ALL FLESH published posthumously.
Henry James' THE AMBASSADORS.
Wilbur and Orville Wright register the first successful flight of a
gasoline powered aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N. C.
The Panama Canal Zone ceded to the U. S.
1904 Conrad's NOSTROMO, Barrie's PETER PAN and Hudson's GREEN MANSIONS
are among the most important publications of the year.
1905 Einstein's theory of relativity.
1908 Arnold Bennett's THE OLD WIVES' TALE.
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1910-1936 Reign of George V
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1915 Conrad's VICTORY and Somerset Maugham's OF HUMAN BONDAGE are
published.
1916 James Joyce's PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN appears.
1919 Maugham's THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
1920 Station KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA introduces commercial radio
broadcasts.
1921 Aldous Huxley publishes CROME YELLOW, and D. H. Lawrence prints
WOMEN IN LOVE.
1922 John Galsworthy completes THE FORSYTE SAGA (1906-1922).
James Joyce publishes ULYSSES with the help of Sylvia Beach.
Virginia Woolf completes JACOB'S ROOM.
1923 Clarence Birdseye introduces frozen food.
1925 Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY.
1926 John Logie Baird, C. F. Jenkins and D. Mihaly invent television.
1927 Woolf's TO THE LIGHTHOUSE.
1928 Invention of color television by John Logie Baird.
1929 Woolf publishes A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN.
1930 Evelyn Waugh's VILE BODIES.
1931 Jacob Schick makes the electric razor.
1932 John Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1934 Robert Graves' I, CLAUDIUS and Waugh's A HANDFUL OF DUST appear.
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1936 Edward VIII, who abdicates to marry Mrs. Simpson.
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1936-1952 George VI reigns.
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1937 The Dupont Company of the U.S. introduces nylon.
1939 James Joyce's most puzzling book FINNEGAN'S WAKE.
1940 Although Tucker coined the word "radar," Robert M. Page was the
inventor.
Automatic transmissions for cars introduced by General Motors.
1941
1942 Enrico Fermi and his team on the Manhattan project produce a
manmade atomic reaction.
1944 Joyce Cary's THE HORSE'S MOUTH.
1945 Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece BRIDESHEAD REVISITED.
The atomic bomb: J. R. Oppenheimer, Arthur H. Compton, Enrico Fermi
and Leo Szilard
1946 George Orwell's satirical ANIMAL FARM appears.
ENIAC (Electronic vacuum tube computer) is built by John Mauchly
and J. Presper.
1947 The Bell XS-1, the world's first supersonic aircraft is introduced
in the U. S.
1948 Evelyn Waugh makes fun of Hollywood's burial practices in THE LOVED
ONE.
Graham Greene's THE HEART OF THE MATTER.
The transistor is introduced. It will replace vacuum tubes,
permitting smaller more portable electronics. William Shockley,
John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain get credit for the product.
Peter Goldmark introduces the microgrove or long-playing record.
1949 George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR spells out a disutopia. For
years people wonder whether his vision might not be totally
accurate both in the severity of life in the future and the date by
which the monitoring of the life of ordinary citizens might occur.
1950 First appearance of the xerographic copying machine by the Haloid
Company.
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1952 Elizabeth II's coronation takes place in Westminster Abbey.
The event is the first coronation of a British monarch to
be carried by television around the world.
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1952 The hydrogen bomb courtesy of Edward Teller and Igor Kurchatov.
1953 Waugh's LOVE AMONG THE RUINS.
1954 Kingsley Amis' satirical look at the life of a young teacher, LUCKY
JIM, appears.
1958 T. H. White retells the Arthurian legend in THE ONCE AND FUTURE
KING.
Charles Townes discovers the laser.
1959 William Golding's FREE FALL.
1960 Lawrence Durrell completes his ALEXANDRIA QUARTET.
The USS ENTERPRISE becomes the first nuclear-powered ship.
1963 John Fowles' THE COLLECTOR.
The Philips Company of the Netherlands introduces the cassette
tape.
1964 The home use transistor videotape recorder appears. Sony of Japan
introduces it.
1966 Fowles' THE MAGUS and Graham Greene's THE COMEDIANS both appear.
1968 Anthony Burgess' ENDERBY
1969 John Fowles' THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN.
Doris Lessing completes her CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series.