biography
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| lived:
| (1835–1902)
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| biography:
| Writer, painter, and musician, born at Langar Rectory, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became a sheep farmer in New Zealand (1859–64). On returning to England, he worked on his Utopian satire, Erewhon (1872) - the word is an inversion of ‘nowhere’ - in which many conventional practices and customs are reversed. Its supplement, Erewhon Revisited (1901), dealt with the origin of religious belief. His musical compositions include two oratorios, gavottes, minuets, fugues, and a cantata. He is best known for his autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (1903), an ironic and witty study of the stultifying effects of Victorian family traits and attitudes. |
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