That's....weird. It sort of works for Woolf, because 1922 was Jacob's Room and when she started to write about Mrs Dalloway in linked short stories. Forster wrote the travel guide to Alexandria, but that wasn't exactly revolutionary. It REALLY doesn't work for Lawrence, who left Europe for America and racketing around between Ceylon, Australia, Taos, &c &c. He did write Kangaroo in 1922, which is terrible, and Studies in Classic American Literature, which was very influential in the fifties and early sixties but has fallen way out of fashion like most of his prophetic pronouncements.
I don't think I've ever seen a convincing explanation for "On or about December 1910, human character changed." I've always thought she was taking the piss, or referring dryly to Halley's comet. Although rather amusingly someone has written a book that sounds a lot like this one -- about Bloomsbury in 1910! http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674636064
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Date: 2017-05-28 07:47 am (UTC)I don't think I've ever seen a convincing explanation for "On or about December 1910, human character changed." I've always thought she was taking the piss, or referring dryly to Halley's comet. Although rather amusingly someone has written a book that sounds a lot like this one -- about Bloomsbury in 1910! http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674636064