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1920
 
    
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA       
1920
 
    
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles       
Agatha Christie, photo 1923
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1921
 
    
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson       
1921
 
    
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus       
1922
 
    
John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga       
1922
 
    
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections       
1923
 
    
The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?       
1923
 
    
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York       
1924
 
    
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities       
1924
 
    
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young       
Christopher Robin, c.1924
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