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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 h 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 totwo 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 rhythis 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 UnitedStates 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

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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 inParis but it was refused ams 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 ofthe 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, famousfor 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

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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.