Literature and music at Darwin’s time
Charles Dickens was born on February 1812 7th in
Portsmouth, England He was the most popular English
novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of
all time. He created some of literature’s most iconic
characters. At first time, he had a happy youth but, at the
age of 12, his father is arrested by the police and Charles
and his family became poor: Dickens had begun working
ten-hour days at Warren’s Blacking Warehouse and it’ why in
his books he spoke about poverty and hard work in factories
like in his most famous book: "Oliver Twist", a boy who
escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets
in London.
The novel is one of Dickens’s most well-known works, and
has been the subject of numerous films and television
adaptations.
We can compare Emile Zola, a French
writer, with Charles Dickens because like
him, his books speak about factory work
and poverty like in his most famous book
"Germinal".
He was the most important exemplar of
the literary school called naturalism.
Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770
- 1827) is a great
musician from
the 19th century.
His most famous
work is the n°5
Symphony.
The
Bronte
Sisters,
Charlotte, Emily and Anne,
were English writers of the
1840s and 1850s. Their
novels caused a sensation
when
they
published
were
and
first
were
subsequently accepted into
the canon of great English
literature
sellers.
became
Charlotte’s
best"Jane
Eyre", Emily’s "Wuthering
Heights"
and
Anne’s
"Agnes Grey" were released
in 1847.