Modernism
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Updated: 30 Nov 2018
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Created byDanny Chaves Cerdas
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Events
Beginning of
The Modern PeriodAccession of Edward VIIWomen twenty-one
and over granted
voting rightsBeginning of
World War IEnd of World War IFirst wireless communication
across the AtlanticEaster Rising in Dublin
against the British
government in Ireland.Reign of King George VTreaty of Versailles.
League of Nations formed.Great Depression beginsHitler comes to power
in GermanyEdward VIII succeeds George V,
but abdicates in favor of his brother,
crowned as George VIBeginning of World War IIEnd of World War IIEmpire Windrush brings
West Indians to U.K.Women (over 30) get
the vote in Britain.BBC starts.United Nations founded.Berlin Wall erectedEnd of the Modern PeriodSuez crisisThe Man of Property
by John GalsworthyH.G. Wells’s utopian study
Anticipations of the Reaction
of MechanicalScientific Progress upon
Human Life
by H.G. WellsMan and Superman
by George Bernard ShawStrife
by John GalsworthyBlast: Review of the
Great English Vortex
by Wyndham LewisTarr
by Wyndham LewisHugh Selwyn Mauberley,
long dramatic poem
by Ezra PoundWomen in Love
by D.H. LawrenceThe Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot.A Passage to India
by E. M. ForsterTo the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf.A Room of One's Own
by Virginia WoolfHarriet Hume: A London
Fantasy
by Rebecca WestMurder in the Cathedral
by T.S. EliotVile Bodies
by Evelyn WaughBrighton Rock
by Graham Greene.Keep the Aspidistra Flying,
critical novel by George OrwellThe Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth BowenAnother Time
by Wystan Hugh AudenAnimal Farm
by George Orwell.The Slaves of Solitude
by Patrick HamiltonPut Out More Flags
by Evelyn WaughNineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
by George OrwellBrideshead Revisited,
The Sacred & Profane Memories
of Captain Charles Ryder
by English writer Evelyn WaughThe Bell by Iris MurdochLucky Jim
by Kingsley AmisThe Deep Blue Sea
by Terence Rattigan.The Hawk in the Rain
by Ted Hughes.The Less Deceived
by Philip LarkinGhana becomes
independentNigeria becomes
independentIndia and Pakistan become
independent nationsApartheid laws passed
in South Africa
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