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VICTORIAN WRITERS

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812, and died in 1870. His real name is Charles John Huffan Dickens, and he’s from Engand. 

Is one of the most important writers of the Victorians period and of England.

He used the realism, the realism, as you know try to copy the reality by the way of the observation. He made a social criticism base on his own experiences, and he could showed how was the industrial England. 

He published his Works on the newspapers, and one of his most important works is, for example, Oliver Twist.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 and died in 1900. He was a writer, poet and playwright. Wilde is considered one of the most famous playwrights of the Victorian London.

In 1874, at the age of 20 years old he began to study at Oxford and during his stay at this university his father died. Finally in November of 1878 he obtained Bachelor of Arts, graduated with the highest note.

He remained in Oxford from 1874 until 1878, during he became a well know personality in the university. When he was 27 years old, he recollected all his poetic works in his first book, called: Poems.

In London he met Constance Lloyd, both were married on 1884. They had two children: Cyril and Vivian. In 1895, when he was at the peak of his career, the secretly romance with his fiend Lord Alfred Douglas was discovered. Then Wilde was accused of sodomy and was sentenced to years in gale.

Constance and Wilde divorced and she changed her and her children surname to Molland. When he left the prison he lived in Paris with the name of Sebastian Melmoth.

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thoronto in 1816. She had four sisters and a brother. Her mother died of cancer when she was just five years old and Charlotte and her sisters were sent to a horrible internship.

Charlotte received a proposal of marriage from Arthur Bell Nicholls. She in Italy turned down his proposal, and her father objected to the union because Arthur was por. Charlotte was increasingly attacted by Nicholls, and by January 1854 had accepted his proposal. They gained the approval of her father by April, and married in June.

She became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly and died with her unborn child in 1855, aged 38.

She used a pseudonym because in those times it was bad sight that a woman could write. Her pseudonym was Current Bell, and there were a lots of speculations about if Current Bell was a man or a woman. She believed art was most convincing when it’s based on personal experience, so in her novels she explained personal experiences and also things that she couldn’t live although she would like to.

 

Jane Eyre is the story of a young orphan girl brought up under the classicist regime of nineteenth century Britain. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality, but is a novel many consider head of its time.

 

Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1882 he joined former classmate George Turnavine Budd as his partner at a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice.

In 1890 Doyle studied ophthalmology in Vienna, and moved to London, first living in Montague Place and then in South Norwood. He set un a practice as an ophthalmologist an No.2 Devonshire Place. 

He wrote in his autobiography that not a single patient crossed his door. This gave him more time for writing, and in November 1891 he wrote to his mother: “I think of slaying Holmes… and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things”. His mother responded, “You won’t, you can’t, you mustn’t!”. 

In December 1893, in order to dedicate more of his time to what considered his more important works (his historical novels), Doyle had Holmes and Professor Mortiarty apparently down the Reichenbach Falls in the story “The Final Problem”. Public outcry, however, led him to bring the character back in 1901, in The Hound of the Baskervilles. 

In 1903, Doyle published his first Holmes short story in ten years, “The Adventure of the Empty House, in which it was explained that only Moriarty had fallen Doyle was found clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930.

He died of a heart attack at the age of 71. His last words were directed toward his wife: “You are wonderful”. At the time of his death, there was some controversy concerning his burial place, as he was avowedly not Christian, considering himself a Spiritualist.




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