Life & Family
Yet for all this in 1572 he was born into relative poverty. His
father died
shortly before his birth, and his mother remarried a bricklayer.
Luckily
for the clever young boy, an unidentified friend paid for Jonson to
attend
Westminster School. After leaving school Jonson attempted to join his
stepfather as a bricklayer, but the profession didn't take; legend has it young
Ben recited Homer while building the walls of Lincoln Inn. In the 1590s
Jonson
served in the armed forces in the Low Countries, and in November
1594 Jonson
married a woman he described as "a shrew, yet honest."
father died
shortly before his birth, and his mother remarried a bricklayer.
Luckily
for the clever young boy, an unidentified friend paid for Jonson to
attend
Westminster School. After leaving school Jonson attempted to join his
stepfather as a bricklayer, but the profession didn't take; legend has it young
Ben recited Homer while building the walls of Lincoln Inn. In the 1590s
Jonson
served in the armed forces in the Low Countries, and in November
1594 Jonson
married a woman he described as "a shrew, yet honest."