George Bernard Shaw was a British dramatist, critic, and novelist, born in Dublin in 1856, and largely self-educated. His father, George Carr Shaw, was an unsuccessful businessman; his mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Gurley, was a musíc teacher. In his youth Shaw enrolled successively in four schools, but he proved to be an indifferent student in most subjects. Music, literature, and painting appealed to him strongly and by incessant reading and visits to art galleries, theaters, and concert halls he acquired a well-rounded education in these fields before he was fifteen.
Shaw obtained a clerical Job in a Dublin real-estate office in 1871. Although he found the work stultifying, he remained with the firm four and a half years. During this period he embarked on his literary career with a letter to the press on the menace of revivalism as practiced by the American evangelists Dwight Lyman Moody and Ira David Sankey (1840-1908). Letters to the press were thereafter a favorite means of expression with him.
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