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Eugene Gladstone O’Neill
O’Neill was always "feeling alone, and above, and apart". He considered himself "a stranger who never feels at home" and assumed that he "is not really wanted".
About his stay at th...
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Charlotte Bronte
Four of the girls were sent away to school, Charlotte among them. They were sent to the Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. The food was poor and insufficient and they were treated...
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
World War I And Hemingway
he First World War was raging and when he turned 18, Hemingway tried to enlist in the army but was deferred because of his poor left eye. He then vo...
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Enid Blyton
• By the 1950's, Enid was one of the four most-read authors in the world.
• Her work has been translated into over 40 languages, with that Enid Blyton is the third most ...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
BA & HER FATHER
Mr Barrett dominated his children emotionally and financially. He was rigidly against the rule of marriage. Elizabeth was his most–loved daughter. Yet his tyran...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
FINANCIAL CRISIS
As Fyodor and his brothers grew up their father would often talk to them of acute financial crisis, and would explain that he was a man of limited means and...
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E.M. Forster
He was a fairly large and plumpish man, dressed ordinarily in a dowdy suit, cheap shirt and nondescript tie. Straggling hair, broad brow, a long reddish nose, and under it a wispy moustache; fine eyes...
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David Herbert Lawrence
Environment In Which The Great Writer Was Born
In spite of constant bickering and quarrels, this ill-matched couple produced five children : George Arthur, William Er...
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Dante Alighieri
EARLY YEARS
Dante Alighieri (his real name was Durante) was born in Florence, the son of Alighiero di Bellincione Alighieri, a notary belonging to an ancient but deca...
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Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s works reflected his diverse experiences in many countries as well as his life. A brilliant journalist, novelist and social thinker, he was also a prolific author, and produced more than 500 bo...
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Charlotte Bronte
Poems By Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell
One day Charlotte came across some of the poems written by her sister Emily. She was very much fascinated by her poems and ...
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Charles Dickens
The First Book
His first published piece of writing appeared in Monthly Magazine. On the day a new issue was to come out, he went to a bookshop and asked for it. He was so ov...
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George Bernard Shaw
In social habit Shaw was impossible outside his house where he and his wife entertained the most successful formal lunch parties. He spent a normal man’s life time on committees like executive committ...
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Arnold Wesker
The Kitchen – Stage Directions
His plays Chicken Soup with Barley (1958), Roots (1958), and I’m Talking About Jerusalem (1960) from a trilogy about a family of Jewish...
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