Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
15
, pp. 123-37.
125-6
All...
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
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
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...
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
Helen Waddell
Meanwhile, because members of Constable
's were serving in the armed forces, HW
went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...
Occupation
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin.
80
and...
Occupation
Cicely Hamilton
CH
played her first role in a major West End production, George Bernard Shaw
's Fanny's First Play.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press.
131
Occupation
Lady Colin Campbell
George Bernard Shaw
nominated her to replace him as art critic for The World, A Journal for Men and Women.
Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd.
153
Occupation
Dora Russell
During this period, DR
's energies were centred significantly but not exclusively on her own family. In 1922 she helped her husband with his parliamentary campaign and began her critical work The Religion of the...
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin
and Heinemann
before her friend John Lane
accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
Literary responses
Augusta Gregory
The play was very well received, drawing large and enthusiastic audiences. From the beginning, critics recognized its hypnotic effect and its potential to stir audiences to violence. One reviewer, Stephen Gwynn
, questioned whether such...
