William Somerset Maugham(毛姆)
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Edith died of TB final son died on 25 January 1882, one Edith's sixth and six days later on 31 January at the age of 41. The early death of on Maugham's eighth birthday. day after his birth, his mother left Maugham traumatized; he kept his mother's photograph by his bedside for the rest of his life.Two years after Edith's death, Maugham's father died in France of cancer.
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Childhood and Education
1.Father: Robert Ormond Maugham（罗伯特· 奥蒙得· 毛姆）
Since lawyer who declared the legal affairs of theon A French law handled that all children born British French soil could be conscripted for military service, his embassy in Paris. father arranged for Maugham to be born at the embassy, technically on British soil. His grandfather, another Robert, had also been a prominent lawyer and co-founder of the English Law Society. It was taken for granted that Maugham and his brothers would follow in their footsteps. His elder brother Viscount Maugham enjoyed a distinguished legal career and served as Lord Chancellor from 1938 to 1939.
Uncle:Henry MacDonald Maugham Maugham was sent to the UK School, Canterbury, which was Vicar The boy attended The King's to be cared for by his uncle,the ['vikə]教堂牧师 of Whitstable, in Kent 肯特（英国东南部州名）； also difficult for him. He was teased for his bad English (French 不列颠岛南部的古代盎格鲁所建的王国. The move was damaging, had been his first language) and his short stature, which he as his uncle provedfather. Maugham developed a stammer inherited from his cold and emotionally cruel. ['stæ mə] 口吃 that would stay with him all his life, although it was sporadic [spəu'ræ dik] 零星的and subject to mood and circumstance. Young Maugham developed a talent for making wounding At sixteen, Maugham refused to continue at The King's remarks to those who displeased him. ThisGermany, sometimes School. His uncle allowed him to travel to ability is where he reflected in Maugham's literary characters.at Heidelberg studied literature, philosophy and German University海德堡大学. During his year in Heidelberg, Maugham met and had a sexual affair with John Ellingham Brooks, an Englishman ten years his senior. He also wrote his first book there, a biography of Giacomo Meyerbeer, anopera composer.
Career
Early works:
Liza of Lambeth (1897):《兰贝斯的丽莎》 A tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. It drew its details from Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum(贫民窟). The Magician (1908): Based its principal character on the well-known and somewhat disreputable Aleister Crowley. Crowley took some offence at the treatment of the protagonist, Oliver Haddo. He wrote a critique of the novel, charging Maugham with plagiarism, in a review published in Vanity Fair.Maugham survived the criticism without much damage to his reputation.
Marriage and Family
Wife : Syrie Wellcome （茜瑞· 威尔卡姆） Daughter :Mary Elizabeth Maugham, (1915–1998) Although homosexual, Maugham entered into a In with Syrie Wellcome, the wife of Henry relationship May 1917, following the decree absolute, Syrie Wellcome Wellcome（亨利· and Maugham were married. Syrie 威尔卡姆）, an American-born Maugham became a noted interior decorator who English pharmaceutical magnate. They had a daughter in the 1920s popularized "the all-white room." named Mary Elizabeth Maugham, (1915– Their daughter was familiarly divorce, 1998). Henry Wellcome sued his wife forcalled Liza and her surname as co-respondent. naming Maugham was changed to Maugham. The marriage was unhappy, and Syrie divorced him in 1929, finding his relationship and travels with Haxton（哈克斯顿） too difficult to live with.
Maugham's father and three older brothers were all nephew a On Maugham's return to Britain, his uncle found his distinguished accountant [ə'kauntənt] 会计师's office, but position in an lawyers, and Maugham asked to be excused after a month, Maugham gave it up and returned toA career in the from the duty of following in their footsteps. Whitstable. His uncle set about finding Maugham a new profession. might church was rejected because a stammering minister make the family seem writing steadily since the age of 15 Maugham had been ridiculous. and fervently wished to become an author, but as he was not rejected the civil service, telling his guardian. His uncle of age, he refrained from not because of the young For feelings or interests, studied medicine at concluded man'sthe next five years, hebut because his uncleSt Thomas' Hospital was no longer a career that the civil servicein Lambeth, London. for gentlemen; a recent law required applicants to pass an entry examination. The local doctor suggested the medical profession and Maugham's uncle agreed.
British playwright Short story writer the most popular writers and reputedly the highest paid author Novelist During the 1930s
Who is it?
William Somerset Maugham 威廉· 萨默塞特· 毛姆 1874/1/25－1965/12/16
2.Mother:Edith Mary
She had Maugham several years after the last of his Had tuberculosis[tju:,bə:kju'ləusis].肺结核 (TB), a condition for three older brothers; they were already enrolled in which her doctor prescribed[pri'skraibd]规定的 childbirth. boarding school by the time he was three. Being the youngest, he was effectively raised as an only child.
Childhood and Education
Marriage and Family Career
AchievemenБайду номын сангаасs
Childhood and Education
1.Father: Robert Ormond Maugham（罗伯特· 奥蒙得· 毛姆）
Since lawyer who declared the legal affairs of theon A French law handled that all children born British French soil could be conscripted for military service, his embassy in Paris. father arranged for Maugham to be born at the embassy, technically on British soil. His grandfather, another Robert, had also been a prominent lawyer and co-founder of the English Law Society. It was taken for granted that Maugham and his brothers would follow in their footsteps. His elder brother Viscount Maugham enjoyed a distinguished legal career and served as Lord Chancellor from 1938 to 1939.
Uncle:Henry MacDonald Maugham Maugham was sent to the UK School, Canterbury, which was Vicar The boy attended The King's to be cared for by his uncle,the ['vikə]教堂牧师 of Whitstable, in Kent 肯特（英国东南部州名）； also difficult for him. He was teased for his bad English (French 不列颠岛南部的古代盎格鲁所建的王国. The move was damaging, had been his first language) and his short stature, which he as his uncle provedfather. Maugham developed a stammer inherited from his cold and emotionally cruel. ['stæ mə] 口吃 that would stay with him all his life, although it was sporadic [spəu'ræ dik] 零星的and subject to mood and circumstance. Young Maugham developed a talent for making wounding At sixteen, Maugham refused to continue at The King's remarks to those who displeased him. ThisGermany, sometimes School. His uncle allowed him to travel to ability is where he reflected in Maugham's literary characters.at Heidelberg studied literature, philosophy and German University海德堡大学. During his year in Heidelberg, Maugham met and had a sexual affair with John Ellingham Brooks, an Englishman ten years his senior. He also wrote his first book there, a biography of Giacomo Meyerbeer, anopera composer.
Career
Early works:
Liza of Lambeth (1897):《兰贝斯的丽莎》 A tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. It drew its details from Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum(贫民窟). The Magician (1908): Based its principal character on the well-known and somewhat disreputable Aleister Crowley. Crowley took some offence at the treatment of the protagonist, Oliver Haddo. He wrote a critique of the novel, charging Maugham with plagiarism, in a review published in Vanity Fair.Maugham survived the criticism without much damage to his reputation.
Marriage and Family
Wife : Syrie Wellcome （茜瑞· 威尔卡姆） Daughter :Mary Elizabeth Maugham, (1915–1998) Although homosexual, Maugham entered into a In with Syrie Wellcome, the wife of Henry relationship May 1917, following the decree absolute, Syrie Wellcome Wellcome（亨利· and Maugham were married. Syrie 威尔卡姆）, an American-born Maugham became a noted interior decorator who English pharmaceutical magnate. They had a daughter in the 1920s popularized "the all-white room." named Mary Elizabeth Maugham, (1915– Their daughter was familiarly divorce, 1998). Henry Wellcome sued his wife forcalled Liza and her surname as co-respondent. naming Maugham was changed to Maugham. The marriage was unhappy, and Syrie divorced him in 1929, finding his relationship and travels with Haxton（哈克斯顿） too difficult to live with.
Maugham's father and three older brothers were all nephew a On Maugham's return to Britain, his uncle found his distinguished accountant [ə'kauntənt] 会计师's office, but position in an lawyers, and Maugham asked to be excused after a month, Maugham gave it up and returned toA career in the from the duty of following in their footsteps. Whitstable. His uncle set about finding Maugham a new profession. might church was rejected because a stammering minister make the family seem writing steadily since the age of 15 Maugham had been ridiculous. and fervently wished to become an author, but as he was not rejected the civil service, telling his guardian. His uncle of age, he refrained from not because of the young For feelings or interests, studied medicine at concluded man'sthe next five years, hebut because his uncleSt Thomas' Hospital was no longer a career that the civil servicein Lambeth, London. for gentlemen; a recent law required applicants to pass an entry examination. The local doctor suggested the medical profession and Maugham's uncle agreed.
British playwright Short story writer the most popular writers and reputedly the highest paid author Novelist During the 1930s
Who is it?
William Somerset Maugham 威廉· 萨默塞特· 毛姆 1874/1/25－1965/12/16
2.Mother:Edith Mary
She had Maugham several years after the last of his Had tuberculosis[tju:,bə:kju'ləusis].肺结核 (TB), a condition for three older brothers; they were already enrolled in which her doctor prescribed[pri'skraibd]规定的 childbirth. boarding school by the time he was three. Being the youngest, he was effectively raised as an only child.