While in Dublin, Shaw had wanted to go in for art and study music, but in London he gave up this idea and decided to try his hand at writing. In 1876 Bernard Shaw moved to London, where his mother had been making a living by giving music lessons. When the first socialist organizations appeared, he joined the Socialists.

Shaw took a great interest in social movements and politics. He came in contact with the common people and saw all the stages of poverty into which the Irish peasants had fallen. At the age of fifteen Shaw went to work as a clerk. His mother, who had a very good voice, taught her son singing. He educated himself by reading and by studying foreign language. As a boy he seldom saw his parents His father was occupied in a business which was almost bankrupt, and his mother devoted all her time to musical interests.īernard Shaw had a well-educated uncle, a clergyman with whom he read the classics So when he entered school at the age often, he was much advanced and did better than all other pupils in English composition But the school course of studies was so dull for him that he soon got tired of it and took refuge in idleness His parents made him change schools, but everywhere the old-fashioned dull books were the same, and they did not arouse the boy's interest. He took an active part in solving human problems, and he was deeply moved by questions of war and peace.īernard Shaw was born in 1856 in Dunlin, the capital of Ireland. One of the greatest realistic writers in world literature was George Bernard Shaw A great publicist and dramatist, he was always in the midst of political life in Britain.

Pygmalion play by george bernard shaw