Victorian Writers

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He was born on 22nd of may 1859 at 11th Picardy Place, Edinburgh , Scotland. A phisician and a writer and most noted for his storyes about Sherlock Holmes. He studied medicine at the university of Edinburgh, where he began writing short stories. Hi earlies exant fiction was The haunted Grange of Garesthorpe.His first published piece was The Mystery of sassa Valley , a story set in South Africa , printed in Chanber's Edinburgh Hoournal on 6th of september 1879.He the wrote The Mystery of Cloomber , Narrative of John Smith , The Captain of Pole Star and many others. The first significant work was A Study in Scarlet , was taken by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, giving Doyle 25 for all rights to the story.In this story was featured the first aparition of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes. The storyes about the detective and his assistant made doyle famous. He died on Monday, July 7th , 1930 at the age of 71, surrounded by his family . His last words were adressed to his wife , the greatest and most glorious adventure of all, he the wispered you are wonderfull.

Oscar Wilde
He was born on 16th October 1854 Was an Irish writer and poet . At university Wilde read Greats. He proved himself to be an outstanding classicist , fosrt at Dublin , the 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, he published a book of poems , lectured in the United States and Canada on the new English Reconaissance in art and then returned to london where he worked proficially as a journalist .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 . Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover,Lord Alfred Douglas. The charge carried a penalty of up to two years in prison.

After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

Charles John Huffam Dickens

He was born on 7th of February 1812 in Pstmouth He was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian periode.Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory after his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers.Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his novels most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel He wrote The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club David Copperfield Bleak House The Adventures of Oliver Twist The Haunted House A Christmas Carol David Copperfield The battle of life He died on 8th of june 1870 bya a heart stroke

Emily , Charlotter and Anna Bronte

Born in West Yorkshire. Charlotte was the odlest born on 21th of April folowed by Emily , born on 30th July 1818 and Anne who was born on 17th January 1820. After the death of their mother in 1821 ad two sibling who died in childhood. They were brought by their aunt Elisabeth. They all attended different schools and were also taught at home.

The women wrote novels and poetry to shove off boredom. Because women were not allowed to publich in the 1850s, the three sisters wrote under the male names Ellis, Currer and Acton Bell . They published their first anthology of poetry under these names in May 1846 Charlotte and Emily had been educated in Brussels but they had to return to England folowing the death of their aunt. By 1845 , all three sisters were back at home in Haworth to look after their brother Branwell who was addicted to drugs Charlotte Was left alone with his father his father . She well-Known writer by this point and visited london a couple of times. Shirley was published in 1848 and Vilette in 1853. In 1854, she married her father's curabe Arthur Nicholls and then died of tuberculosis in 1855. Emily She's only work is the towering romantic classic Withering Heights which was published in 1848 but it did not sell well, despite becoming a popilar novel in later years. Theyr brother Bradwell died of tuberculosis in this year. Emily succumbed to the same disease on 19 December 1849. Anne She was the author of Agnes Grey which was released in 1847 and the autobiographical the tenant of Wildfell Hall which sold well in 1848. She also died of tuberculosis in 1849. The three sisters published a joint volume of poetry before their untimely deaths. There were a lot of suspicions about the authors, when gossip reached boiling point , it was Charlotte who went to her publisher to announce the the three writers were all women.