Charles chaplin mini biography of edgar

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(1) Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography ()

Although we were aware of the shame of going to the workhouse, when Mother told us about it both Sydney and I thought it adventurous and a change from living in one stuffy room. But on that doleful day I didn't realize what was happening until we actually entered the workhouse gate.

Then the forlorn bewilderment of it struck me; for there we were made to separate, Mother going in one direction to the women's ward and we in another to the children's.

How well I remember the poignant sadness of that first visiting day: the shock of seeing Mother enter the visiting-room garbed in workhouse clothes.

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How forlorn and embarrassed she looked! In one week she had aged and grown thin, but her face lit up when she saw us.

(2) in his autobiography, Charles Chaplin lists Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells and Harold Laski. as important influences on his political views.

I now saw H. G. Wells frequently Charles Chaplin - Biography - IMDb BATU