mention the divine, shows a post-Calvinist interest in evil spirits, as does R. L.
Stevenson, whom he admired. Many were taken up with spiritualism and the occult:
W. B. Yeats,H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang, Arthur Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie,
Rudyard Kipling. Many put their faith in secular politics: William Morris, founder
ofthe Socialist League (and the Arts and Crafts movement), and George Bernard
DIFFERENTIATION 311Events and publications 1881–1901
Events Chief publications
1881 Revised Version of the New Testament (Old Testament,
1885); Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, Washington
Square; Oscar Wilde, Poems
1882 The Irish Secretary is assassinated in Dublin 1882 Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
1884 Third Reform Act extends franchise 1884 James Murray (ed.), A New English Dictionary on
Historical Principles(125 parts, 1928)
1885 Prime Minister Gladstone resigns on the defeat of 1885 Sir Richard Burton (trans.), Arabian Nights(16 volumes,
his Irish Home Rule Bill 1888); H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines; George
Meredith, Diana of the Crossways; Walter Pater, Marius
the Epicurean; John Ruskin, Praeterita(3 vols, 1888);
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems
1886 Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge; James, The
Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima; R. L. Stevenson,
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped; Rudyard Kipling,
Departmental Ditties; Tennyson,Locksley Hall, Sixty Years
After
1887 Hardy, The Woodlanders(August Strindberg, The Father)
1888 James, The Aspern Papers; Kipling, Plain Tales from the
Hills
1889 Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae; Robert Browning,
Asolando; W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin; Pater,
Appreciations
1890 Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough(12 vols, 1915);
William Morris, News from Nowhere
1891 Assisted Education Act provides free elementary 1891 Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles; Wilde, The Picture of
education Dorian Gray
1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes;
Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan; Yeats, The Countess
1893 Second Irish Home Rule Bill is defeated Kathleen.
1894 George Moore, Esther Waters; Kipling, The Jungle Book;
Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide; George Bernard Shaw, Arms
and the Man
1895 Hardy, Jude the Obscure; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine;
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
1896 Stevenson (d.1894), Weir of Hermiston; A. E. Housman,
A Shropshire Lad
1897 Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus; James,
What Maisie Knew
1898 James, The Turn of the Screw; Shaw, Mrs Warren’s
Profession; Hardy, Wessex Poems
1899 Boer War against the Dutch South Africans (to 1902) 1899 Kipling, Stalky and Co.
1900 Labour Party is founded 1900 Conrad, Lord Jim
1901 Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII reigns (to 1910) 1901 Kipling, Kim(Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters)