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"I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended," one of Dahl's English teachers commented. These experiences later inspired him to write stories in which children fight against cruel adults and authorities. I never got over it." (from Boy: Tales of Childhood, 1984) Dahl especially hated the matron who ruled the school dormitories. His years at public schools in Wales and England Dahl later described without nostalgia: "I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely. When Dahl was 13 he went to a public school named Repton. The family had to sell their jewelry to pay for Dahl's upkeep at a private school in Derbyshire.
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Harald died when Dahl was four years old, and three weeks later his elder sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. In 1911 he married Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg. He married a young French girl named Marie in Paris she died after giving birth to their second child. Before emigrating to Wales, Harald had been a farmer near Oslo. His father, Harald Dahl, was the joint owner of a successful ship-broking business, "Aadnesen& Dahl" with another Norwegian. Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales, of Norwegian parents. 5, including Tessa, Ophelia and Lucy SourceĪ little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.