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1925
 
    
English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters       
1925
 
    
Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day       
1926
 
    
Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns       
1926
 
    
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising       
1926
 
    
Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh       
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1926
 
    
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders       
1927
 
    
Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon       
1927
 
   
Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel      
1927
 
    
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse       
1928
 
     
Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford