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Dove
; William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
.
 
 

 
 
1903       
The Wright Brothers fly a biplane 852 feet. Women’s Social and Political Union founded in England by Emmeline Pankhurst.
 
 

 
 
1904       
Sir Leslie Stephen dies. George Duckworth (1868–1934) marries Lady Margaret Herbert. The Stephen children—Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian—move to 46 Gordon Square, in the Bloomsbury district of London. Woolf contributes to F. W. Maitland’s biography of her father. Leonard Woolf comes to dine before sailing for Ceylon. Woolf travels in Italy and France. Her first publication is an unsigned review in the
Guardian
, a church weekly.
“Empire Day” inaugurated in London and in Britain’s colonies.
Anton Chekhov,
The Cherry Orchard
; Henry James,
The Golden Bowl
.
 
 

 
 
1905       
Woolf begins teaching weekly adult education classes at Morley College. Thoby invites Cambridge friends to their home for “Thursday Evenings”—the beginnings of the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf travels with Adrian to Portugal and Spain. The Stephens visit Cornwall for the first time since their mother’s death.
Revolution in Russia.
Albert Einstein,
Special Theory of Relativity
; E. M. Forster,
Where Angels Fear to Tread
; Sigmund Freud,
Essays in the Theory of Sexuality
; Edith Wharton,
The House of Mirth
; Oscar Wilde,
De Profundis
.
 
 

 
 
1906       
The Stephens travel to Greece. Vanessa and Thoby fall ill. Thoby dies November 20; on November 22, Vanessa agrees to marry Clive Bell.
Deaths of Paul Cézanne (b. 1839) and Henrik Ibsen (b. 1828). Samuel Beckett born (d. 1989).
 
 

 
 
1907       
Woolf moves with her brother Adrian to Fitzroy Square. Vanessa marries Clive Bell.
First Cubist exhibition in Paris. W. H. Auden born (d. 1973).
Joseph Conrad,
The Secret Agent
; E. M. Forster,
The Longest Journey
; Edmund Gosse,
Father and Son
; Pablo Picasso,
Demoiselles d’Avignon
.
 
 

 
 
1908       
Birth of Vanessa Bell’s first child, Julian. Woolf travels to Italy with Vanessa and Clive Bell.
Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister.
E. M. Forster,
A Room with a View
; Gertrude Stein,
Three Lives
.
 
 

 
 
1909       
Woolf receives a legacy of £2,500 on the death of her Quaker aunt, Caroline Emelia Stephen. Lytton Strachey proposes marriage to Woolf, but they both quickly realize this would be a mistake. Woolf meets Lady Ottoline Morrell for the first time. She travels to the Wagner festival in Bayreuth.
Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George (1863–1945) introduces a “People’s Budget,” taxing
wealth to pay for social reforms. A constitutional crisis ensues when the House of Lords rejects it. Death of George Meredith (b. 1828).
Filippo Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”; Henri Matisse,
Dance
.
 
 

 
 
1910       
Woolf participates in the Dreadnought Hoax. She volunteers for the cause of women’s suffrage. Birth of Vanessa Bell’s second child, Quentin (d. 1996).
First Post-Impressionist Exhibition (“Manet and the Post-Impressionists”) organized by Roger Fry (1866–1934) at the Grafton Galleries in London. Edward VII dies May 6. George V becomes king. Death of Leo Tolstoy (b. 1828).
E. M. Forster,
Howards End
; Igor Stravinsky,
The Firebird
.
 
 

 
 
1911       
Woolf rents Little Talland House in Sussex. Leonard Woolf returns from Ceylon; in November, he, Adrian Stephen, John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), Woolf, and Duncan Grant (1885–1978) share a house together at Brunswick Square in London.
Ernest Rutherford makes first model of atomic structure. Rupert Brooke,
Poems
; Joseph Conrad,
Under Western Eyes
; D. H. Lawrence,
The White Peacock
; Katherine