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Education of Henry Adams
.
1907–12
Divides time between homes in US and Paris. Travels in England and Italy. Has affair with journalist Morton Fullerton (1908–10); writes love sonnets and a diary to him.
1908
A Motor-Flight Through France
.
Forster:
A Room with a View
.
1909
It is revealed that Teddy has embezzled $50,000 of Edith’s money.
Gertrude Stein:
Three Lives
. Gide:
La Porte étroite
. Wells:
Tono Bungay
;
Ann Veronica
.
1910
Moves to a new apartment in Paris and sells her New York houses.
Death of Mark Twain (b. 1835). Forster:
Howards End
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS
    Women in Australia are granted the vote.
    Women’s Trade Union League founded in New York.
    In Britain, Emmeline Pankhurst founds Women’s Social and Political Union.
    Wright brothers’ first successful powered flight.
    Death of Gauguin (b. 1848).
    Theodore Roosevelt re-elected US president.
    Russo-Japanese War (to 1905).
    Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. ‘La belle époque’ in France.
    First Russian Revolution. Separation of church and state in France.
    Series of mining disasters in US (to 1910); 2,494 killed.
    Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
    San Francisco earthquake.
    Clemenceau becomes French prime minister (to 1909).
    Currency panic in US; run on banks; J. P. Morgan imports $100 million in gold from Europe to halt crisis.
    Triple Entente of Britain, France and Russia.
    Cubism begins in Paris. Asquith becomes prime minister in Britain (to 1916).
    First Model T Ford car. Blériot flies across English Channel. Commercial manufacture of Bakelite means beginning of plastic age.
    Diaghilev founds Ballets Russes. Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto.
    Death of King Edward VII (b. 1841), who is succeeded by George V.
     
DATE
AUTHOR’S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1911
Drives through central Italy with Walter Berry.
Ethan Frome
(admired by reviewers).
Dreiser:
Jennie Gerhardt
.
1912
Worsening rifts with Teddy. Sells ‘The Mount’.
Visits England.
The Reef
.
Dreiser:
The Financier
.
Mann:
Death in Venice
.
1913
The Custom of the Country
.
Divorced from Teddy. Travels with Berry in Sicily and Bernard Berenson in Germany. Last visit to US for ten years.
Proust:
A la Recherche du temps perdu
(to 1927).

Alain-Fournier:
Le Grand Meaulnes
.

Ellen Glasgow:
Virginia
.
Lawrence:
Sons and Lovers
.
Conrad: Chance
.
1914

Joyce:
Dubliners
.
Gides:
Les Caves du Vatican
.
1914–19
Based in Paris. Travels in North Africa and Spain. After outbreak of war, tireless fund-raising and other work for unemployed women, refugees, homeless children and tuberculosis convalescents. Visits front. Writes articles about life in the trenches for Scribner’s. Publishes
Summer
(1917) and
The Marne
(1918) and rents château at Hyères on the Mediterranean (1919).
1915
Continues with a series of visits to the front lines, delivering medical supplies. Organizes Children of Flanders Rescue Committee. Forms friendship with André Gide, fellow worker at the hostels.
Virginia Woolf:
The Voyage Out
.
Ford:
The Good Soldier
.
Lawrence:
The Rainbow
.
Gilman:
Herland
.
Roosevelt:
America and the World War
.
1916
Made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur for her war work. Edits
The Book of the Homeless
, a fund-raising venture with contributions by distinguished writers, artists and musicians which raises $15,000.
Bunner Sisters
published in
Xingu and Other Stories
.
Joyce:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
.
Death of Henry James (b.1843).
    HISTORICAL EVENTS
    Agadir crisis. Chinese Revolution.
    Woodrow Wilson elected US president. Foundation of the ‘Bull Moose’ Party by Theodore Roosevelt and his followers, splitting the Republican Party completely. Poincaré becomes French prime minister, and is elected to the presidency the following year (to 1920). First Balkan War.
    Sinking of
Titanic
. Charlie Chaplin’s first film.
    Completion of new, even grander, Grand Central Station building.
    Post-Impressionist exhibition in New York.
    Stravinsky’s
Rite of Spring
premiered in