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1902
 
     
John Masefield's poem 'Sea Fever' is published in Salt-Water Ballads        
1902
 
    
Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles begins publication in serial form       
1902
 
    
W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society       
1902
 
    
Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels, The Wings of the Dove       
1902
 
    
Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness, a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo       
1902
 
   
The English painter G.F. Watts is made a founding member of the Order of Merit      
Watts Hope (detail) 1886
Tate Britain

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1903
 
     
Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union to fight for women's political rights in the UK        
1903
 
    
Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain       
1903
 
   
Alois Hitler, violent, feared and greatly disliked by his son Adolf, dies      
Alois Hitler, photograph c.1860 (Wikimedia)


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1903
 
    
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors, the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession