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资源链接 George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin,where he grew up in something close to genteel poverty.“I am a typical Irishman;my family came from Yorkshire,” Shaw once said.His father,George Carr Shaw,was in the wholesale grain trade.Lucinda Elisabeth(Gurly) Shaw,his mother,was the daughter of an impoverished landowner.She was 16years younger than her husband.George Carr was a drunkard梙is example prompted his son to become a teetotaller.When he died in 1885,his children and wife did not attend his funeral.Young Shaw and his two sisters were brought up mostly by servants.Shaw’s mother eventually left the family home to teach music,singing,in London.When she died in 1913,Shaw confessed to Mrs Patrick Campbell:“I must write to you about it,because there is no one else who didn’t hate her mother,and even who doesn’t hate her children.”  In 1866 the family moved to a better neighborhood.Shaw went to the Wesleyan Connexional School,then moved to a private school near Dalkey,and from there to Dublin’s Central Model School.Shaw finished his formal education at the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School.At the age of 15,he started to work as a junior clerk.In 1876 he went to London,joining his sister and mother.Shaw did not return to Ireland for nearly thirty years. Most of the next two years Shaw educated himself at the British Museum.He began his literary career by writing music and drama criticism,and novels,including the semiautobiographical Immaturity,without much success.A vegetarian,who eschewed alcohol and tobacco,Shaw joined in 1884 the Fabian Society,served on its executive committee from 1885 to 1911.The middle class socialist group attracted also H.G.Wells 梩he both writers send each other copies of their new books as they appeared.揧ou are,now that Wilde is dead,the one living playwright in my esteem,?wrote Wells after receiving Shaw’s Three Plays For Puritans (1901). A man of many causes,Shaw supported abolition of