... , a few major names stand out as those who will probably define the 1900s – and it is easier to pick out such names from the first part of the century, than it is from the second half. Novelists such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence will probably remain ... social and cultural breakdown in Western civilization. GEORGIAN AND IMAGIST POETRY The poetry which is termed 'Georgian' takes its name from the King (George V) who reigned from 1910 to 1936, but in effect it covers a much shorter period. A great many of the most significant poets of the time &ndash ... had take...

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... poor Irish girl, Isabella Shawe; they had three daughters. Their first child, Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), became a writer - her impressionistic texts impressed Virginia Woolf, who drew a portrait of her in Night and Day as 'Mrs Hilbery'. Thackeray began to contribute regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine ... that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip." Pip, an orphan, lives with his old sister and her husband. He ... George...

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