Charles dickens

Charles Dickens

Context

Charles Dickens (1882-1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important authors of the Victorian Era. He's mostly known for his social Novels, concerning poverty and unhealthy lives of the working classes. His works enjoyed a great popularity.

Biography

Works

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is an old greedy man who hates Christmas. He exploits his Clerk Bob Cratchit, and mocks the poors. On Chrismtas Eve he is visited by the gost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him what is the destiny of selfish people. Three other ghosts will visit him

Scrooge is haunted by the Ghost of Chrismtas past, who shows him scenes of his early Christmases

Then, he is hanuted by thye Ghost of Chrismas Present, that shows him the true Christmas spirit, even poor people like Bob Cratchit are happy. He also show how his Nephew is celebrating Christmas, and reveals that the society is ruined by Ignorance an Want

Finally we have the Ghost of Chrismtas Yet to Come, silent and mysterious. He shows Scrooge terrible scenes of the Future, including a grave. and if people like him don't change, society will be comndened to Misery.

Answer the questions 1. Who was Charles Dickens? 2. What is the story about? 3. Which ghost did you like the most and why? 4. Did you like the story? Why? If not, why?

Some books by Virginia Woolf

• Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
• To the Lighthouse (1927)
• A room of One's Own (1929)
• Between the Acts (1939)

Virginia Woolf is now accepted as an extremely important literary figure and an early feminist.

However, her work wasn't embraced or widely anthologized until nearly 50 years after her novels were published. Here are 5 reasons why Woolf should be one of your feminist icons:

• She was chiefly interested in and wrote about the inner lives of women.
• She lived in a time when she was granted few rights, but turned the setback into a strength.
• She was progressive in her feminism, and even made the connection between a patriarchal society and militarism.
• She believed deeply in the power of the individual.
• She saw sexuality and gender as fluid.

Source: Huffpost.com

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century.

Born into a wealthy English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and, encouraged by her father, began writing professionally in 1900. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters, and biographies. She and her husband, Leonard Woolf, bought a used printing press and established their own publishing house, Hogarth Press, going on to publish some of their own work as well as that of Sigmund Freud, Katharine Mansfield, and T.S. Eliot. Throughout her career, Woolf spoke regularly at colleges and universities and by her mid-forties, she had established herself as an intellectual, an innovative and influential writer, and a pioneering feminist.

In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She took her own life in 1941, at the age of 59, after her house was destroyed in The Blitz (WW2 bombing of London).