Biography Woodhaus

Pale Granville Woodhaus. A brief biography of the poor Platmi Woodhaus was born on October 15. He was baptized by the strange name "Ple" in honor of the godfather recall that this is Pushkin "Peals". In their family, children in general, as he wrote later, "did not spare"; Let's say the older brother was Armin, the youngest was Lancelot. The diligent reader will notice that in his books there are many people with strange names: the brothers Count Emsworth - Galahad and apparently, the late Lancelot, father Millisent from the Summer Thunderstorm.

The second t. Woodhaus did not like his names and eagerly laughed at them. From childhood, he was called "SIM" - rather by consonance, and not because this word means "plum" or "brown". His family was typical for those times. Father, a colonial official, belonged to the nobility, but only the head of the clan wears him far from the title in England. Woodhaus went back to the Norfolk knight of the XI century.

According to a stable legend, she gave birth to her son from Henry VIII, so that he was Elizabeth not only of cousin, but also his brother. When Elizabeth was dying, she sent him to him for the Scottish king Jacob VI, to whom she wanted to transfer power; He became Jacob I in England. Later, among others, Stanbok-Fermora join the family tree. This is interesting that the representatives of this kind lived in Russia, see Woodhaus poetized the aristocracy, but never boasted a belonging to it.

Mother was the daughter of Vicaria, John Betherst Dean; This Vicar, on the contrary, tried to prove that their family ascends to the Norman knight Robert de Den, who served Eduard the Confessor of the XI century. Elinor was a tenth of thirteen children. For Ernst Henry Woodhouse, she went out when she came to Hong Kong to her brother. The distant relative of Dinov was Cardinal Newman.

The younger sister, Emmelina wrote his portrait, which has been at exhibitions many times. Another sister, Mary, released a lot of poems; Both were not married.

Father was distinguished by the complacency of V. The mother was very powerful and implausible self -loving. Maybe because of her the most terrible creature in the world became for P. a small flame remained without parents at two years old - no, they did not die, but brought him and his two older brothers to Bat, and they themselves returned to Hong Kong. Up to 15 years, in total, Plam saw parents for no more than six months.

He first lived with a professional nanny, then - with relatives, and at school, and in other people's families. Usually such a childhood leaves a difficult mark; This happened, for example, with Kipling and Orwell. On Woodhaus, it worked in a special way: he got used to loneliness, became shy, but did not embitter at all. Moreover, he loved and gently recalled the early years, especially the school.

In old age, he wrote about her "six years of bliss." Of course, he was lucky, the school is good. But both the family and the school are rarely remembered with gratitude, there are too many wounds there, and imaginary and real ones. It seems that only the mother applied the real flame, and that was the cold of the absence, but he did not cherish imaginary. Most likely, from childhood he was extremely non -malignant.

Usually this is recognized; Only one of his many biographers believes that he skillfully pretended. I don’t think it is very difficult, and it is unlike how he behaved in a variety of circumstances. He studied Pale well and dreamed of the university. Armin entered Oxford there, and there was not enough money for the younger. He was identified in the London branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

He still did not understand what they were doing there "If I had even once understood what I was doing, he wrote after three quarters of a century, - I would forget about it." Parents lived in Shropshire, he rarely went to them. In London, he rented a seedy room, ate poorly and retained the craving for cleanliness and comfort for his life. Fortunately, in the later years, except for one difficult period, he was not deprived of them.

And in the uncomfortable room and in the service he wrote. At first, the manuscripts were returned, then, little by little, they began to print it. According to him, he "dreamed of leaving", and did not dare. But "here the providence intervened." We will warn that some researchers consider this an invention, however, according to Woodhaus, it was like this: "The main supplier immediately appeared, swearing and fighting that the uninterrupted was working.

They did it. They pressed me to the wall and gave me up. Immediately after that I gained freedom and was able to devote myself to literature." For a year with a little Woodhaus, he wrote, where he could, mostly, all sorts of little things. His school stories and humorous poems stand out. Suddenly - literally suddenly - he wanted to go to America; It was especially attracted by boxing matches.

There was already enough money, albeit in a tip. Maybe it was this act that suggests that Woodhaus never became an adult. He had an old age, very long and very similar to his second childhood, and there was no more “serious”, and there was no solid age. From a year, or rather, some ridiculous teenage adventures begin from the very beginning. The first and most unpleasant of his vampires appeared - a young teacher of ancient languages, who had just graduated from Cambridge.

His name was Herbert Westbrook. He considered himself talented.Apparently, Woodhaus’s irresponsibility and kindness came up so that he took our hero in the place of Emsworth Sic! As in Woodhauz’s novels, a rather significant evil, nevertheless, Westbrook was a classic Zakhrebertnik led to good: Pale Granville found something like a family. He was especially attached to the director’s sister, Ella King Hall; It can be assumed that he fell in love with her.

Westbrook looked after her, although both were 15 years younger than her. She belonged to Woodhaus in Woodhaus. Probably, we owe her such heroines, who are at least forty - Bernie from the "girl in blue", Beatrice "once - and ready" - there are more than half a dozen of them. Westbrook gave rise to his charming scammers, from Yukridge to Molly. He married Ella, and Woodhouse, almost immediately, went to America again.

The director of the school, Baldwin, he loved respectfully and tried to portray in the novel "Zolotza You are our" Mr. Ebny. In a word, these ten years have been closely connected with the Emswort school; Sometimes biographers believe that he taught there. In fact, he played football with students, staged musical performances with Ella and helped the servants stir the Christmas pudding.

Note that he was friends with the servants from childhood; Here he - perhaps for the first time - made friends with the owners. Falling in love with Ella is only a guess. Researchers do not know if Woodhaus has been in love, ardently and simply, like his heroes. It may very well be that love lived with him only in an idyllic world. What interfered with him - we also do not know; Perhaps shyness and absurdity of course, scientists with a tendency to Freudianism suggest other versions.

So, up to a year, the school in Emsworth was his home. He traveled to America several times, and in England stopped mainly there. Here he wrote "Golden"; He nevertheless wrote the rest of the stories and novels in the New York cheap hotel and in random London rooms. The reader undoubtedly noticed that the word "Emsworth" became the title of his beloved hero. The cottage, which he shot near the school, was called "Tripwood." It was printed a lot, in different magazines, up to the Punch itself.

Almost immediately, in the year, a column in a fairly prestigious Gloub magazine fell. He wrote good stories from school life for the magazine "Capten". He had a success, but, as it were, a second grade; In contrast, let's say, not everyone knew the young Woodhouse from the G. Chesterton. An anonymous poem "Parrot", which was printed in Daily Express, should be the greatest success.

The parrot reasoned six days a week on financial topics; It lasted from October to mid -December with breaks. Poems, really lovely, are written on the model of "Raven". Each eight -end ends with the phrase: "And the food will rise in price", which entered the proverb, and so much that the liberals used it in the elections of the year. In general, years have passed well. As we already said, he shot the Tripwood cottage, behind which Lily Barronet, another of the prototypes of Bernie and other "old, faithful" friends, looked after him in his absence.

In England, he spent in these years much more time than in America; And yet, in a certain sense, he lived there. The first time, just like a boy, he went there to shake the hand of the famous boxer. He arrived on April 25, did not find his boxer, but met with others, and took root so quickly that the Americans often consider him their writer. By the will of fate or, as he would say, providence, the last quarter of a century he could not leave the States; But the close connection with them began much earlier.