On his mother's income as a music teacher and a pound a week sent by his father from
His first years in London, 1876-1884, were filled with frustration and poverty. Joined them the following year at the age of twenty hoping to make a living by writing. When her teacher moved to London Shaw's mother and two sisters followed. Singing lessons from a well known Dublin music teacher who eventually moved into the
Outside of work, books, theater,Īnd art captured his attention, but it was music that pervaded his home. Giving him an early familiarity with economic injustice. In a land agent's office which required him to go out among the poor to collect rent,
Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and brieflyĪttending Protestant and Catholic day schools. Landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son andĪnd youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw.
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