William Somerset Maugham Biography Life and Literature of W. S. Maugham William Somerset Maugham was born on January 25, 1874, in the British Embassy in Paris, France. His mother was the socialite Edith Mary Snell, and his father was Robert Orman Maugham, a lawyer. However, Maugham endured a traumatic childhood he was orphaned at … Read more
John Millington Synge Biography Life and Literature Literature of J. M. Synge John Millington Synge was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin in 1871 into an evangelical Church of Ireland family who previously owned substantial estates in Co. Wicklow. As a young man, Synge’s exposure to the works of Darwin and Marx led him to … Read more
James Joyce Biography Life and Literature of James Joyce James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland, on February 2, 1882, the eldest of 10 surviving children. He was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College before going on to University College, then located on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin, where he … Read more
Ted Hughes Biography ABOUT THE POET Edward James Hughes was born on 17th August, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, in the west Riding region of Yorkshire in England. His father, William Hughes, had been a carpenter but had subsequently enlisted in the army in the course of World War-I and had fought on the Gallipoli Pennisula in … Read more
THE POET WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 1. Life and Works : Willam Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1835. His father was J.R. Yeats, an Irish portrait-painter. He was educated at the Godolphin School, Hammersmith, in London. But he went back to Dublin where he began to study art at Erasmus School … Read more
Life and Literature of Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was born into late-Victorian London on January 25, 1882. Her mother was Julia Stephen (1846-1895), famous in the artistic and literary world for her beauty and in high demand for her skills as an informal nurse. Woolf’s father was Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), a well-known literary critic … Read more
