E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family

John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte

J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere

Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse

James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners

Rat, Mole and Toad, in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, appeal to a wide readership

The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses

The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman

In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past

John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories

H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence

Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British

E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family

D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock

Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I

G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown

Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford

Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell

Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners

The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb

Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica

D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers

James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist

After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published