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Författarporträtt av Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Författarporträtt av Wollstonecraft, Mary

Wollstonecraft, Mary
1759 - 1797

The author and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft was born in the district of Spitalfields, London. Because of her father's...

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Portrait image of Samuel Richardson

Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761

Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...

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Författarporträtt av Strindberg, August

Strindberg, August
1849 - 1912

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish author born in Stockholm to a large middle-class family. His father was head of the...

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