Owen, Wilfred Contents
Owen, Wilfred Timeline
| Year | Historical | Literary | Author |
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| 1893 | Independent Labour Party formed | Wilfred Owen born on 18th March at Plas Wilmot, Oswestry to Tom and Susan Owen | |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality | Mary Owen, sister, born | |
| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
Plas Wilmot sold. Owens move to Shrewsbury. Harold Owen, brother, born |
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| 1899 |
( - 1902) Second Boer War Irish Literary Theatre founded |
Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken Pinero's Trelawney of the 'Wells' Symons' The Symbolist Movement in literature Wells' Tales of Space and Time |
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| 1900 |
Most children under eleven attending elementary school Daily Express founded Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams |
Birth of Colin Owen Wilfred enters Birkenhead Institute |
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| 1901 |
Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII king First transatlantic radio communication by Marconi |
Wells' The First Men in the Moon | |
| 1902 |
Balfour Education Act establishes state system of secondary schools Second Boer War ends |
Bennett's Anna of the Five towns Mare's Songs of Childhood Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles Kipling's Just So Stories |
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| 1903 |
Wilbur and Orville Wright make first powered flight New York-London news service begins using wireless telegraphy Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union |
Butler's The Way of All Flesh James' The Ambassadors The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. du Bois |
Owen holidays with his mother at Broxton, in rural Cheshire. Aged 11, he found his ‘poet-hood’ in Nature |
| 1904 |
Entente Cordiale settles colonial differences between UK and France Offset printing invented Abbey Theatre, Dublin, founded Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life |
Hardy's The Dynasts, Part I published J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan first performed on stage James' The Golden Bowl |
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| 1905 |
Start of suffragette agitation and first suffragettes imprisoned Einstein's special theory of relativity Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality |
Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes Wells' Kipps |
Owen family holiday in Scarborough |
| 1906 | Liberal landslide in general election; 29 Labour MPs elected and Labour Party constituted | Mare's Poems | |
| 1907 | Pablo Picasso introduces cubism | Owen starts at Shrewsbury Technical School | |
| 1908 |
Old Age Pensions Act introduces state pensions for the over-seventies Ford's first Model T car sold in Britain Pathe's first regular newsreel First aeroplane flight in Britain |
Edmund Gosse's Father & Son published Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale Wells' The War in the Air |
Owen reads and admires Wordsworth’s poetry ‘The wisdom and spirit of the universe .. is the power that teaches the child through nature’ |
| 1909 |
North Pole reached by Robert Peary (US) NAACP founded |
Galsworthy's Strife Pound's Personae |
Wilfred Owen and his father visit Brittany, France |
| 1910 |
Edward VII dies. George V becomes king South Wales Miners' strike First post-impressionist exhibition in London First feature-length films Freud's On Psychoanalysis Collapse of cotton farming due to boll weevil damage |
Galsworthy's Justice Wells' The History of Mr Polly |
While on holiday in Devon, Owen visits the granddaughter of Samuel Coleridge, the Romantic poet |
| 1911 |
Ford Model T assembly plant opened in Manchester Beatrice and Webb's Poverty Der Blaue Reiter group of expressionist artists formed in Munich Frazer's The Golden Bough (11 vols.-1915; first two vols., 1890) Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole Suffragette riots in London |
Wells' The New Machiavelli |
Owen works as a pupil teacher at Wyle Cop School; starts to read Keats and sits London University Matriculation Exams Owen passes London University exams but without honours needed for a scholarship Owen is appointed lay-assistant to the Rev Herbert Wiggin at Dunsden, nr Reading |
| 1912 |
First Post-Impressionism Exhibition in London Titanic sinks Widespread strikes in Britain Women's Franchise Bill rejected by the House of Commons; suffragettes riot in London Some 400 cinemas in London; establishment of British Board of Film Censors |
Bridges' Poetical Works Mare's The Listeners Georgian Poetry, ed. Edward Marsh Pound's Ripostes Mann's Death in Venice |
Owen sits the scholarship exams for Reading University |
| 1913 |
Suffragette Emily Davies dies after throwing herself under the King's horse at the Derby Freud's Totem and Taboo; also Interpretation of Dreams Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring 'Cat and Mouse' Act House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill but rejected by the House of Lords Suffragette deonstrations |
Marcel Proust publishes first of the seven volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) (last volume, 1927) |
Owen leaves Dunsden and breaks with the Evangelical approach to Christianity Owen suffers from congestion of the lungs Owen hears he has failed the Reading University exams Owen leaves England for France where he teaches English at the Berlitz Language School in Bordeaux |
| 1914 |
August: Great War breaks out (to November 1918) Irish Home Rule Act passed but later suspended because of war World War One - although segregated, black soldiers enlisted to fight in US armed forces |
Pound's Des Imagistes |
Owen ‘comes of age’ at 21 Owen tutor to a Catholic family in Bordeaux Owen meets Laurent Tailhade, a French symbolist poet |
| 1915 |
War intensifies with huge losses Zeppelin attacks on London Sinking of Lusitania Einstein's general theory of relativity Second Battle of Ypres |
Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps Kafka's Metamorphosis Maugham's Of Human Bondage Some's Imagist Poets: An Anthology, ed. Amy Lowell (further Imagist anthologies followed in 1916 and 1917) Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier |
The English Channel is considered too unsafe to cross. Owen remains in France until September Owen returns to England and joins the Artists’ Rifles in October |
| 1916 |
Easter Rising, Dublin Conscription introduced Battle of the Somme Theories of shell-shock develop Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious Battle of Verdun Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister The Great Migration to the north begins (US) |
Brighouse's Hobson's Choice Wells' Mr Britling Sees it Through |
Owen attends a training course in London where he shows his poems to Harold Munro at the Poetry Bookshop Owen commissioned into the Manchester Regiment and leaves for the Western Front on 29th December |
| 1917 |
USA enters war Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Russian Revolution (March) Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis Abdication of Czar Nicholas II Russian Revolution (October) |
1st January: Owen joins the 2nd Manchesters on the Somme near Beaumont Hamel 6th January: Owen holds the dug out in no man’s land where the sentry is blinded (The Sentry) 20th January: front line the platoon suffer severe frost (Futility) March: Owen suffers from concussion May: suffers from shell shock June: at Craiglockhart meets Sassoon and Robert Graves Nov: Owen at Scarborough on light duties, where he writes and redrafts many poems |
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| 1918 |
End of the Great War: Armistice, 11 November Rutherford splits atom Representation of the People Act (4th Reform Bill) gives the vote to all men over twenty-one and women over thirty Stopes' Married Love; Parenthood Fisher Education Act raises school-leaving age to fourteen Influenza pandemic, kills over 20 million people world-wide by 1920 Execution of Czar Nicholas II Vote given to all men over twenty-one and women over thirty |
Joyce's Exiles Thomas' Last Poems |
Jan: Miners published Spring: Owen at Ripon Command Depot where he redrafts poetry June: Owen passed as fit for active service August: Etaples, France Sept: Amiens, France Oct: assault on Beauvevoir-Fonsomme after which Owen is awarded the Military Cross Nov 4th: Owen killed on the Oise-Sambre Canal Nov 5th: London Gazette reports Owen’s promotion to full Lieutenant Nov 8th: Owen buried at Ors Nov 11th: Armistice declared. News of Owen’s death received by his parents in Shrewsbury |
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