Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and E. C. Bentley’s Trent’s Last
Case (1913);and in Edwardian children’s books: E. Nesbit’s New Treasure Seekers,
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill, Kenneth
Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales– and J. M.
Barrie’s play Peter Pan, a theatrical whimsy first performed in 1904, published in
1911,and still on the London stage every Christmas. Shaw dominated the stage, and328 12 · ENDS AND BEGINNINGS: 1901–19
Events and publications of 1900–19
Events Publications
1900 Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim; G. B. Shaw, You Never Can Tell
1901 Victoria dies. Edward VII reigns (to 1910) 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim
1902 Boer War ends 1902 Henry James, The Wings of the Dove; W. B. Yeats,
Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Beatrix Potter,The Tale of Peter
Rabbit
1903 Conrad, Typhoon, Romance(with F. M. Hueffer); James,
The Ambassadors
1904 G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill; Conrad,
Nostromo; James,The Golden Bowl; M. R. James,Ghost
Stories of an Antiquary; J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan; J. M.
Synge, Riders to the Sea; Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island;
Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts(3 parts, 1908)
1905 E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
1906 John Galsworthy, The Man of Property; Rudyard Kipling,
Puck of Pook’s Hill
1907 Conrad, The Secret Agent; Edmund Gosse, Father and
Son; Synge,The Playboy of the Western World; Hilaire
Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children
1908 H. H. Asquith (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister. 1908 Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale; Kenneth Grahame,
‘Votes for Women’ rally in Hyde Park, London The Wind in the Willows; Yeats,Collected Works
(Anton Chekhov (d.1904), The Cherry Orchard)
1910 Edward VII dies. George V reigns (to 1936). 1910 Forster, Howards End; H. G. Wells, The History of Mr
Post-Impressionist exhibition held in London Polly
1911 Delhi Durbar 1911 Rupert Brooke, Poems; Chesterton, The Ballad of the
White Horse; D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock
1912 Suffragettes active. Loss of the Titanic 1912 Edward Marsh (ed.), Georgian Poetry I; Walter de la Mare,
The Listeners
1913 D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Compton Mackenzie,
Sinister Street
1914 First World War begins 1914 Hardy, Satires of Circumstance; James Joyce, Dubliners;
Shaw, Pygmalion; Yeats, Responsibilities; Ezra Pound,
Lustra; Pound (ed.),Des Imagistes (anthology)
1915 Battle of Ypres; Gallipoli landings 1915 Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier; Conrad, Victory;
Lawrence, The Rainbow; Pound, Cathay
1916 Battle of the Somme. David Lloyd George (Liberal) 1916 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
becomes Prime Minister. The Easter Rising in Dublin
1917 Battle of Passchendaele. Bolshevik Revolution in Russia 1917 T. S. Eliot, Prufrock; Conrad, The Shadow Line
1918 Armistice ends fighting: Germany defeated 1918 Brooke, Collected Poems; Lytton Strachey, Eminent
Victorians
1919 Treaty of Versailles 1919 Eliot, Poems; Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems;
Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole