Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
George Bernard Shaw
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Standard Name: Shaw, George Bernard
Used Form: G. B. Shaw
GBS
was a drama critic who called for reform of theatrical practice, and a dramatist who attached to his plays on publication, lengthy prefaces expounding the social and dramatic issues opened by the play itself. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him a polemicist, and says that much of the drama of his time and after was indirectly in his debt for his creation of a drama of moral passion and of intellectual conflict and debate.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Florence Farr | The Dancing Faun combines elements of melodrama, social realism, and comedy of manners.Grace Travers falls victim to her husband George's schemes to make a fortune by regaining entry into high society through deception and blackmail... |
| Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
| Cultural formation | Florence Farr | FF
grew up in a well-to-do, professional, English family that gave her access to a good education and exposed her to ideas of social reform. Bernard Shaw
later commented that her privileged upbringing dulled her... |
| Cultural formation | Amber Reeves | Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society
(founded three... |
| death | Beatrice Webb | Her body was cremated and buried at Passfield Corner, until at Bernard Shaw
's somewhat incongruous suggestion, the ashes of both Webbs were re-buried together in Politicians' Corner, Westminster Abbey, on 12 December 1947... |
| Education | Meiling Jin | She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting
) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton
(who was kept locked away)... |
| Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
attended Mount School, York, a Quaker boarding school where her mother had taught English. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. 192 Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6 - 7. 6 |
| Education | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
| Education | Muriel Box | MB
early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer
) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy... |
| Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
| Education | Emma Frances Brooke | The school, which was founded this year by Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Graham Wallas
, and George Bernard Shaw
, focused on the study of inequalities and poverty issues with the aim of improving... |
| Education | Viola Tree | In 1911 Bernard Shaw
, who was an opera critic as well as a playwright, and a Tree family friend (his donations were crucial to the success of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
), wrote... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Bright first had a column in the Evening Sun, and later wrote for the Daily Express and the Pall Mall Gazette. He was sub-editor at the Evening Sun and night-editor at the Daily... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | It was rumoured that George Bernard Shaw
had said that if he had been wealthier he would have proposed to Constance himself. Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991. 46 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Sarah Hoey | Her mother, born Charlotte Jane Shaw
, was half-sister to George Bernard Shaw
's mother. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Timeline
1878
William Swan Sonnenschein
and J. Archibald Allen
formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen
, at 15 Paternoster Square, London.
1883
L. R. S. Tomalin
, an early disciple of Gustave Jaeger
's woollen movement, set up the Jaeger Company
in Fore Street, London, to sell Dr Jaeger's Sanitary Woollen Clothing..
January 1884
The Fabian Society
was founded in London to publicize socialist ideas and investigate the application of socialist principles to British conditions.
Christmas 1889
The Fabian Essays appeared, edited by George Bernard Shaw
.
early June 1890
Philippa Fawcett
of Newnham College, Cambridge
, was placed above the Senior Wrangler in the university's mathematics results.
February 1891
Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein
founded the Independent Theatre Society
in London to promote literary rather than commercial plays, and the new drama in particular.
April 1892
Physical confrontation broke out at a meeting in St James's Hall, London, of supporters of women's franchise.
By April 1894
English theatre patron Annie Horniman
funded a repertory season at the Avenue Theatre
(later the Avenue Playhouse), London which concentrated on the new drama.
1897
With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby
, shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.
31 May 1898
George Bedborough
, secretary of the Legitimation League
which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.
1904
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
(father of the writers Viola
and Iris Tree
) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art
at His Majesty's Theatre
in the Haymarket, London.
Autumn 1904 to summer 1907
Under the management of playwright and director Harley Granville-Barker
and business manager J. E. Vedrenne
, the Court Theatre
became the first permanent home of the new drama.
1906
At the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Authors
, George Bernard Shaw
deplored the dragging down of literary earnings by groups possessing a non-literary income, particularly married women.
1906
Tolstoy
on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy
by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw
), was published.
1907
Alfred Richard Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, No. 2, pp. 33 - 5.
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