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Paris, provoking riot.
    Second Balkan War.
    World War I (to 1918). President Wilson proclaims US neutrality. Ludlow Massacre: striking miners killed in Colorado. Panama Canal opens.
    Assassination of Jaurès, French socialist leader.
    Sinking of the
Lusitania
.
    Battle of the Somme – huge death tolls. Lloyd George British prime minister. Rasputin assassinated. Dada begins in Zürich.
     
DATE
AUTHOR’S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1917

Yeats:
The Wild Swans at Coole
.
1918
Death of elder brother, Frederic
Jones. Buys a villa in a village ten miles outside Paris.
Cather:
My Antonia
.
Hopkins:
Poems
.
Rebecca West:
The Return of the Soldier
.
1919
French Ways and their Meanings
(to 1920).
Woolf:
Night and Day
.
Anderson:
Winesburg, Ohio
.
Dos Passos:
One Man’s Initiation – 1917
.
1920
The Age of Innocence
. (Wins Pulitzer Prize, 1921, first
awarded to a woman.)
Katherine Mansfield:
Bliss
.
Sinclair Lewis:
Main Street
.
Lawrence:
Women in Love
.
Pound:
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
.
1921
The Old Maid
(novella) turned down by several magazines because of its theme of illegitimate birth.
Huxley:
Crome Yellow
.
1922
The Glimpses of the Moon
sells more than 100,000 copies in six months.
Lewis:
Babbitt
.
Woolf:
Jacob’s Room
.
Mansfield:
The Garden Party
.
Joyce:
Ulysses
.
T. S. Eliot:
The Waste Land
.
Death of Proust.
1922–31
Continues to travel, and buys her Hyères home. Reads and dislikes
Ulysses
and
The Waste Land
. Publishes
The Writing of Fiction
, several novels, collections of short stories and poems (including
A Son at the Front, Old New York, The Mother’s Recompense
.)
1923
Pays short visit to US to receive honorary Doctorate of Letters. Scott Fitzgerald works on film version of
The Glimpses of the Moon
.
Cather:
A Lost Lady
.
Cummings:
Tulips and Chimneys
.
Shaw:
Saint Joan
.
1924

Ford:
Parade’s End
(to 1928).
Mann:
The Magic Mountain
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS
    Russian October Revolution. US enters war.
    Wilson proposes ‘Fourteen Points’ for world peace. Armistice (11 November). Worldwide ’flu epidemic kills millions. Women over thirty gain vote in Britain. Irish rebel Con Markievicz elected first British woman MP but refuses her seat. Rutherford splits the atom. Nicholas II assassinated. Civil war in Russia (to 1921).
    Versailles Peace Treaty (US refuses to ratify). Amendments 18 (Prohibition) and 19 (Women’s Suffrage) to US constitution. Strikes and race riots throughout US; the ‘Red Scare’.
    League of Nations meets for first time. Huge majority to right-wing Bloc National in French general election. Warren G. Harding elected US president. Slump in US. First radio broadcasting station. The ‘jazz rage’.
    Quota laws restrict immigration to US. Irish Free State created.
    Paris in the 1920s viewed as the cultural capital of the Western world, attracting artists and intellectuals of many nationalities. Famous expatriates there include Picasso, Man Ray, Miró, Chirico, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ford, Joyce, Beckett, Durrell, and the ‘Lost Generation’ of American writers, e.g. Hemingway, Pound, Williams, Stein, Dos Passos, Anderson and Fitzgerald. Mussolini gains power in Italy. Revival of the Ku Klux Klan. Russia becomes USSR: Stalin becomes general secretary of the Communist Party.
    Talking pictures developed.
    Repeated German defaults on war reparations lead Poincaré (French prime minister once again) to send troops into the Ruhr Valley (to 1925). Financial crisis in Germany. Hitler’s Munich
putsch
fails. Calvin Coolidge elected US president after Harding’s death. Birth control clinic opened in New York.
    Economic boom in US (to 1929).
    Dawes Plan ends reparation crisis. Poincaré’s Bloc National defeated by a coalition of the left, the Cartel des Gauches. French financial crisis which seven cabinets (to 1926) fail to resolve.
     
DATE
AUTHOR’S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1925
Meets Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis.
Cather:
The Professor’s House
.
Fitzgerald:
The Great Gatsby
.
Dreiser:
An American