Charles Dickens Biography Life and Literature of Charles Dickens[Charles Dickens Biography] Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. Charles was the second of eight children to John Dickens (1786–1851), a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, and his wife Elizabeth Dickens (1789–1863). The Dickens family moved to … Read more
Hard Times Summary by Charles Dickens An Introductory Note:[Hard Times Summary ] – Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in … Read more
Charlotte Brontee Life and Literature Life and Literature [Charlotte Brontee ] Charlotte Brontë was a British novelist of the Victorian era, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly … Read more
Mary Shelley Biography Life and Literature Mary Shelley Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), was the daughter of the radical philosopher William Godwin, who described her as ‘singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind’. Her mother, who died days after her birth, was the famous defender of women’s rights, Mary … Read more
TORU DUTTA BIOGRAPHY THE POETESS Toru Dutta was a literary product of the 19th century Bengali Renaissance. Her family happened to be one of the few converts to Christianity in Bengal at the time of orthodox Hinduism. That was a well known family of Rambagan in North Calcutta. Toru Dutta was born in her ancestral … Read more
