The Modern British Literature Index
By Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D.
Nurse Edith Cavell, 1865 - 1915
The horrors of war have cast their pall over the twentieth century and not least so the ghastly Great War, that destroyed what was left of Victorian optimism and hope for human perfectability. Among the atrocities of that war was the murder by firing squad, in Belgium, of the British Nurse Edith Cavell by Kaiser Wilhelm II's barbarians. She is buried in a simple grave just outside Norwich Cathedral.
General Resources:
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Resources from Jack Lynch.
Modern British and American from VoS.
Thomas Hardy ( 1840 - 1928 ).
Henry James ( 1843 - 1916 ).
Robert Bridges ( 1844 - 1930 ).
Joseph Conrad ( 1857 - 1924 ).
A. E. Housman ( 1859 - 1936 ).
William Butler Yeats ( 1865 - 1939 ).
Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 - 1936 ).
H. G. Wells ( 1866 - 1946 ).
John Galsworthy ( 1867 - 1933 ).
Gilbert Keith Chesterton ( 1874 - 1936 ).
E. M. Forster ( 1879 - 1970 ). *
Virginia Woolf ( 1882 - 1941 ).
James Joyce ( 1882 - 1941 ).
D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 - 1930 ).
Robert Graves (1895-1985).*
T. S. Eliot ( 1888 - 1965 ).
Katherine Mansfield ( 1888 - 1923 ). *
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
C. S. Lewis ( 1898 - 1963 ). *
George Orwell (1903-1950). *
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966). *
Graham Greene (1904-1991). *
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). *
W. H. Auden 1907-1973. *
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). *
Ted Hughes (1930-1998). *
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