American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life

The Times Literary Supplement is published in London as an independent paper, separate from The Times

Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published posthumously in an abbreviated version

Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage

The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out

D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, The Rainbow, is seized by the police as an obscene work

Secret agent Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps

Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece

Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier

The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France

Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet

Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians

Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier

In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany

Sapper's patriotic hero makes his first appearance, taking on the villainous Carl Peterson in Bull-dog Drummond

D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson

Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga

American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections

The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?

Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York

E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities

Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young