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/.
Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark
, as well as Bernard Shaw
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Walter de la Mare
. This volume was adapted for television by the BBC
in 1988, without crediting VM
.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth:
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Publishing
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Time and Tide carried two excerpts from Woolf
's A Room of One's Own in November 1929, and the next year MHVR
wrote two series of articles on the treatment of women and gender in...
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...
politics
Olivia Manning
OM
was a Fabian socialist while she was very young, reacting against her father's Toryism and admiring the work of Bernard Shaw
. Even as a radical, however, she approved on balance of the British...
Publishing
Constance Lytton
After the Home Secretary assured the Fabian Society
through the columns of the Times that CL
had been released from prison because of her delicate health, not her class, replies appeared both from her and...
Friends, Associates
Edith Lyttelton
EL
numbered among her close friends the well-known actress Mrs Patrick Campbell
, whom she first met in 1890. Campbell performed in several of her plays. In 1912, EL
was an intermediary when Bernard Shaw
In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers...