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.
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