Years as chapter titles in Virginia Woolf’s “The Years” and Toni Morrison’s “Sula"

I recently finished rereading Virginia Woolf's "The Years" (1937), all of whose chapters (except the last, "The Present Day") are titled with the year they take place: 1880, 1891, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, and 1918. So when I also finished rereading Toni Morrison's "Sula" (1973) the other day (in preparation for my second three-semester cycle of Morrison's novels), I noticed that Morrison, too, used dates as titles of chapters: 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1927 in Part One, and 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1965 in Part Two. Of course, Morrison knew her Woolf: she wrote her 1955 Master's at Cornell University on Woolf and William Faulkner. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 16 January 2025)