The Age of Consent

20th Century Timeline

Nigel Bruce

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20th Century Timeline

  • 1905-6 Mark Twain’s Eve’s Diary published
  • 1909 Mark Twain writes Letters from the Earth (finally published in 1962)
  • 1910 Death of Mark Twain
  • 1922 T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland published
  • 1924 A 35-year-old Chaplin marries 16-year-old Lita Grey. They divorced two years later.
  • 1940 Chaplin’s The Great Dictator released in theaters
  • 1942 T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding published
  • 1943 A 54-year-old Chaplin marries a17-year-old Oona O’Neill.
  • 1950 C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe published
  • 1952 Chaplin leaves the U.S. and lives in Vevey, Switzerland
  • 1953 Death of Dylan Thomas in Manhattan
  • 1954-5 Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is published
  • 1955 Nabokov’s Lolita published in Paris and in 1958 in the U.S.
  • 1960 Nabokov moves to Montreux, Switzerland
  • 1977 Deaths of Nabokov in Montreux and Chaplin in Vevey