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Essay, Biography or Paragraph on “Bernard Shaw” great author complete biography for Class 10, Class 12 and Graduation and other classes.

Bernard Shaw

(1856 – 1950)

Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 in Dublin, in a lower-middle class family of Scottish-Protestant ancestry His father was a failed corn-merchant, with a drinking problem and a squint; his mother was a professional singer, the sole disciple of Vandeleur Lee, a voice teacher claiming to have a unique and original approach to singing. When Shaw was just short of his sixteenth birthday, his mother left her husband and son and moved with Vandeleur Lee to London, where the two set up a household, along with Shaw’s older sister Lucy (who later became a successful music hall singer). Shaw remained in Dublin with his father, completing his schooling (which he hated passionately), and working as a clerk for an estate office (which he hated just as much as school).

In 1876, Shaw left Dublin and his father and moved to London, moving in with his mother’s ménage. There he lived off of his mother and sister while pursuing a career in journalism and writing. The first medium he tried as a creative writer was prose, completing five novels before any of them were published. He read voraciously, in public libraries and in the British Museum reading room. And he became involved in progressive politics. Standing on soapboxes, at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park and at socialist rallies, he learned to overcome his stage fright and his stammer. And, to hold the attention of the crowd, he developed an energetic and aggressive speaking style that is evident in all of his writing. In 1950, Shaw fell off a ladder while trimming a tree on his property at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, outside of London, and died a few days later of complications from the in-jury, at age 94. He had been at work on yet another play (Why She Would Not-) . In his will, he left a large part of his estate to a project to revamp the English alphabet. (Only one volume was published with the new ‘Shaw Alphabet’: a parallel text edition of Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion). After that project failed, the estate was divided among the other beneficiaries in his will: the National Gallery of Ireland, the British Museum, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Royalties from Shaw’s plays (and from the musical My Fair Lady based on Shaw’s Pygmalion) have helped to balance the budgets of these institutions ever since.

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