Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Baker | Critic Sheila Stowell
, contrasting Baker's heroine with Bernard Shaw
's more ambivalent characterizations of the New Woman, sees the role of Edith as a clear and positive alternative for women. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 103 Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 305-16. 311 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Grand | Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain
, George Meredith
, and George Bernard Shaw
, greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation. Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, p. v - xxiv. vi |
| Literary responses | Josephine Tey | The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times. Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Falcon. 178 |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | This novel made the best-seller list the month after publication; but at the end of the year it received the Bookseller's Glass Slipper award for books whose sales had not reflected their quality. Reviewers... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | Save the Mothers was well reviewed. George Bernard Shaw
responded enthusiastically to the book, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
expressed her pleasure at its positive reception. Vera Brittain
also praised it, favourably comparing SP
's activism for... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Florence Farr | |
| Occupation | Augusta Gregory | Horniman, an English heiress, disapproved of the Abbey's involvement in politics, and tensions emerged with some of its key members. AG
eventually bought out Horniman's Abbey shares. Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 123 |
| Occupation | Edith Craig | After the Pioneer Players folded, EC
became actively involved in the Little Theatre movement which was rapidly growing outside London. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 133-4 |
| Occupation | Inez Bensusan | Organisers chose to present two feminist plays by men, Woman on Her Own by Eugène Brieux
, translated by Charlotte Shaw
(Bernard Shaw
's wife), and A Gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
. Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol. 15 , pp. 123-37. 125-6 |
| Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's... |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | Annie Horniman
, whom FF
met through the Order of the Golden Dawn
, agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats
to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted... |
| Occupation | Harriett Jay | Her final role, in The Wanderer from Venus; or Twenty-four Hours with an Angel (a collaboration of Buchanan and herself as Charles Marlowe), was that of a young ingenue whose astronomer fiancé is temporarily... |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
| Occupation | Constance Smedley | In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave
), CS
set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame
. She writes that she was successful in... |
| Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
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