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Wilfred Owen: Biography
Wilfred Owen was born in to a middle-class family in Oswestry in the North of England. Two years later, Owen's grandfather, the financial mainstay of the family, died almost bankrupt. Owen's parents had to move into rented accommodation in the more urban area of Birkenhead. His mother, in particular, resented the family's loss of financial security and its outward signs of gentility.
Owen began to read and write poetry as a child, and, following his mother's interest in religion, started to read the Bible on a daily basis. Owen's family could not afford to send him to public school. Nor, when he failed to win an academic scholarship to the University of London (not as socially or intellectually exclusive as Oxford or Cambridge) in , could they afford to pay for a college education.
Owen thus had to find an occupation suitable to a young man of his class. In , he moved south to the village of Dunsden, near Reading, where he worked as a lay reader (an assistant to a clergyman) until He attended classes part-time at the University of Reading but, despite encouragement from the head of the English department, he again failed to win the scholarship that would have financed full-time study.
After falling ill in , he decided to work as a private teacher
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Wilfred De'Ath
This article is about the journalist. For the Blackadder character, see The Black Seal.
British journalist and writer (–)
Wilfred De'Ath (; 28 July – 19 February )[1] was a British author and journalist who worked for the BBC as a radio producer in the s and s and wrote a column in The Oldie.[2]
Early life
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BBC career
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Wilfred Owen
Early life