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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers, 1974. title-page |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Box | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | It tells the story of a rich heiress who takes in and refines a beautiful London flower-seller. In present-day Kent on the Castle estate of her ancient aristocratic family, Lady Lucille Ingleshaw, aged seventeen, encounters... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Teresa Deevy | TD
began writing as a child, producing stories about family doings for her mother and sisters. During her last years at school, from 1911, the school magazine, St Ursula's Annual, featured her stories. Living... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | Robert Browning
's poem to Emily Patmore
, the original angel in the house, is quoted at the head of the first chapter. Unlike TB
's first novel, this is a romance with a consummated... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Colin Campbell | On the recommendation of George Bernard Shaw
, LCC
was recruited to write as art critic for The World, A Journal for Men and Women, which claimed to have the largest circulation of any... |
| Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | As a student in Dublin, KOB
eagerly attended the Abbey Theatre
. This was a period between Synge
and O'Casey
, but she delighted in plays by Shaw
, beginning with Man and Superman. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962. 116-17 |
| Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | JFLW
became known for the Saturday salon held at her house in Merrion Square, Dublin. The gatherings were attended by writers, actors, scientists, musicians, and public men; the visiting crowd sometimes reaching nearly two... |
| Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy
, writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw
in the Nation... |
| Literary responses | Julia Constance Fletcher | The Athenæum found the acting brilliant but the play thin and badly constructed, its burlesque provoking irritation as well as mirth. Yet it bracketed Fleming with Bernard Shaw
, and gave her points for her... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The sometimes provoking George Bernard Shaw
saw the translation in manuscript and offered effusive praise in a private letter: Sylvia, you are the queerest idiot-genius of this age . . . the most ungovernable, self-intoxicated... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | George Egerton | Both lauded and lambasted, GE
was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire. Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press, 1997. 188 |
| Literary responses | Lady Colin Campbell | Widely read and highly praised, LCC
was described as among the best art critics of her time, doing for the visual arts what her colleague George Bernard Shaw
was doing for music. Fleming, G. H. Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian ’Sex Goddess’. The Windrush Press, 1989. 243 |
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