Sarah Churchwell, professor of American Literature at the University of East Anglia, picked 1922 on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. Could it be because this was the year that Charlie started to keep a journal of his cycling exploits? Actually she explains it is because it starts with Joyce’s Ulyses and ends with TS Eliot’s Wastelands, with many other classics published that year, including
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned & Tales of the Jazz Age
- E E Cummings, The Enormous Room
- Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon
- Proust, translation of Swann’s Way
- Willa Cather, One of Ours
- Rebecca West, The Judge
- Viginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
- Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party
- Elizabeth von Arnim, Enchanted April
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
- D H Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
But we like to think that Charlie can also be credited with a contribution here too – maybe!
