BRITISH WRITERS BY ANDREA GARCA MOYA CHARLES DICKENS

BRITISH WRITERS BY: ANDREA GARCÍA MOYA

CHARLES DICKENS • He was born on February 7, 1812 in England died on June 9, 1870 in England at the age of 58, died of stroke. • At twelve, the future novelist was considered to be old enough to start working, and thus began his working life, working ten hours a day at Warren's Boot-Blacking Factory, a shoe polish factory. • He married Ellen Ternan and had 10 children • He was an English writer and novelist, one of the most recognized in world literature. Descriptions of people and places, both real and imaginary, stand out in his works.

FAMOUS BOOKS • Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. • His next work was Oliver Twist (1837 -1838), an authentically autobiographical account that was published in installments for two months. • This work was followed by Nicholas Nickleby (18381840) and The Antique Shop (1840 -1841), where he narrates little Nelly's misfortunes, with passages inspired by the recent death of her seventeen-yearold sister-in-law Mary Hogarth whom Dickens adored. The play was highly successful in England America.

OLIVER TWIST The Parish Boy's Progress is a book in which Oliver Twist is a nine-year-old orphan boy who doesn't know who his parents were. He escapes from a workhouse to London where he meets the 'Artful Dodger'(Jack Dawkins) , leader of the gang of the juvenile pickpockets. Fagin, the leader of a criminal gang of boys, he trains Oliver for unlawful activities, which was unfamiliar to Oliver. And this is how Oliver started passing his life with criminals. At the end of the story he has escaped and is living with his Aunt Rose

VIRGINIA WOOLF • He was born on January 25, 1882 in London and died on May 28, 1941 in Rio ouse and was caused by suicide by drowning • Although he did not go to school, Woolf received classes from private tutors and his parents. • Her parents died when he was younger • Her husband was Leonard Woolf and they had no children • Throughout his life, Woolf was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses. Although this instability often influenced their social life.

FAMOUS BOOKS • Mrs. Dalloway (1926): woman of the 20 s, meditates on her life while preparing for a party. • To the lighthouse (1927): The novel begins with James Ramsay, age six, wanting to go to the Lighthouse that's across the bay from the Ramsays' summer home. His mother, Mrs. Ramsay, holds out hope that the weather will be good tomorrow so they can go to the Lighthouse, but Mr. Ramsay is adamant that the weather will be awful. • Orlando (1928): Because this novel, in addition to the satire on biography and feminist discourse, is, above all, a love letter from Virginia Woolf to her great friend Vita, to whom she dedicates the work.

END OF TRIP It was her first novel and she speaks through her character, Rachel Vinrace, who is in a strange hotel in a South American country. Virginia Woolf makes a brilliant portrait of the feminine condition and of an entire era, overflowing the small physical space to trace the universality of his thought, a theme started in this, his first novel and which will be the fundamental basis in most of his works.