FAMOUS BRITISH WRITERS

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2. Here are some more names of well-known British writers : William Shakespeare Daniel Defoe Walter Scott Robert Burns Lewis Carroll Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde

3. Charles Dickens (1812-1870 ) -an English novelist. His many famous books describe life in Vicktorian England and show how hard it was, especially for the poor and for children. They include : Oliver Tvist, David Copperfield .

4. Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and he lived during a very challenging time for Europe. His stories were very realistic and sometimes very sad to read. They dealt with how life was for the poor and lower-classes. His art, although not always pleasant to read, has a unique style and I love the way Dickens put words together. He lived until 1870 and during his life-time, he wrote several books. Out of all his works, my favorites are "Great Expectations" and "A Tale of Two Cities". • Charles Dickens is to Victorian England what Shakespeare is to Renaissance England: he typifies the period his writings disclose and expose. The greatest comic genius of his age,Dickens relentlessly calls for reform at every level, implores us to embrace the disadvantaged for our own good, and offers the values of a loving heart and the image of a warm hearth as the emblem of the solution to the cruel and mindless indifference of a society given over to the pursuit of "money, money, money, and what money can make of life," as Bella Wilfer says in Our Mutual Friend.

5. Walter Scott ( 1771-1832 ) - a Scottish writer and a poet, especially famous for his stories of Scottish life, several of them are based on historical characters, such as Ivanhoe and The Heart of Midlothian

6. English poet , novelist and historian. Scottish in origin . He was born in Edinburgh. His parents were William Scott lawyer and daughter of a professor of medicine at Edinburgh University Ann Rutherford . • In early childhood, Scott lived in Sandinou on the farm of his grandfather, recuperating after a " tooth- fever " ( now believe that it was polio) . There he heard stories and ballads of the Scottish robbers , hosted here in earlier times. • Most of his extensive knowledge of Scott was not at school and university, and through self-education. All that interested him forever imprinted in his phenomenal memory. He did not need to study the technical literature before you write a novel or a poem . The tremendous amount of knowledge allowed him to write on any topic chosen . At the request of his father , Scott has chosen career as a lawyer , with 1786 he helped his father in business, and later became a barrister .

7. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -an English writer of plays ,one of the most famous ever. Among the most famous of his plays are the tragedies of Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, the comedies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and the historical plays Richard ııı and Henry V. He also wrote some very good poetry, especially the Sonnets, and worked as an actor at the Globe Theatre in London.

8. For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, allegedly on April 23, 1564. Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564. Young William was born of John Shakespeare, a glover and leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a landed local heiress. William, according to the church register, was the third of eight children in the Shakespeare household—three of whom died in childhood. John Shakespeare had a remarkable run of success as a merchant, alderman, and high bailiff of Stratford, during William's early childhood. His fortunes declined, however, in the late 1570s.

9. Robert Burns (1759-1796) -a Scottish poet who wrote hundred of songs and poems, mainly on country life,love,and national pride

10. Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland to a poor farming family, his parents made sure that he was well educated as a child. In 1783 he started composing poetry in a traditional style using the Ayrshire dialect of Scots. These poems were well received locally and in 1786 they were published in the volume, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect by a local printer in Kilmarnock. This volume made him famous in Scotland overnight and as a result he spent several years in Edinburgh society. However the fame was not accompanied by money and he found it necessary to return to farming. However that too proved unprofitable and in 1789 he entered government service working for the Customs and Excise service. He died at the age of 37 as a result of a weak heart brought on by years of poor working conditions on the farm dating back to his childhood. Within a short time of his death, money started pouring in from all over Scotland to support his widow and children. His memory is celebrated by Burns clubs across the world; his birthday is an unofficial "National Day" for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers.

11. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731 ) - An English writer, whose most famous novels are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders

12. Englishwriter and publicist. Defoe was born in Kriplgeyte about 1600 . Education in the biography of Daniel Defoe was obtained Nyuingtonskoy Academy. Ever since Defoe became interested in foreign languages ​​( in the academy studied Latin , Greek ) , and later perfected his skills during shopping trips to Europe. Biography of Daniel Defoe also known as politics ( although the official position he had not) , but also - the entrepreneur. Adventurist character traits Defoe became the cause of his frequent bankruptcies , as well as the re-acquisition of wealth. First Defoe wrote his works in the form of pamphlets, satirical and journalistic genre. Popularity within London brought him a pamphlet , " A true Englishman " to protect the king. Undoubtedly, such an act closer together Defoe and King William III. After isprobovaniya different professions , Defoe finally stopped by selecting writing. In one of his scandalous pamphlets Defoe was sentenced to 7 years in prison. However, the most famed biography Defoe through his novel "Robinson Crusoe ." All descriptions of the work is very accurate. The motives of the novel, suggesting ease against the ingenuity later became characteristic of many writers.

13. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) -an English writer who wrote two well-known children’s stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

14. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles L. Dodgson, the man who wrote a famous book for children "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Charles L. Dodgson was born in England in 1832. He got his early education at a public school. Then he became a student at Oxford. Charles studied mathematics and later taught this subject in the same college. Charles Dodgson had no family, but he loved children very much. He often visited his friend, who had a large family. There were three little girls in the family. One of them Alice, was four years old. Dodgson liked Alice very much and he often told her interesting stories which he made up himself. Charles told Alice Liddell about the adventure of a little girl, and she liked the stories very much. When Alice Liddell was about ten years old, she asked Charles to write down the stories for her, and he did so. He called the heroine of his book also Alice. This hand-written book had many pictures made by Charles himself. They were not very good pictures but the children liked them. In England the book was published very many times during the author's life and you can always find it in the bookshops of today. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is still a favourite children's book.

15. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -an Irish writer best known for his play The Importance ofBeing Earnest and his story The Picture of Dorian Gray. Many of the clever and funny things he said in conversations are still famous

16. Oscar FingalO'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

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