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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Literary responses | Edith Somerville | He
, however, comprehensively condemned it. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 208 Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 255-6 |
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 | 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. 188 |
Literary responses | Annie Besant | George Bernard Shaw
discovered AB
's turn to Theosophy when he found proofs for this publication on her desk; his reaction was intense and negative. Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin. 80 |
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. 243 |
Literary responses | Christopher St John | St John said that after she published her novels George Bernard Shaw
(a great friend and supporter of her, Craig, and Tony Atwood
) suggested that she should write a history of her own unconventional... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
Literary responses | Henrik Ibsen | In The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891), George Bernard Shaw
catalogues some of the extreme reactions of English theatre critics to the play: Absolutely loathsome and fetid. . . . Unutterably offensive. . . . Most... |
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 | Enid Bagnold | Call Me Jacky was, as EB
's biographer Anne Sebba
put it, her most disastrous failure yet. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 240 |
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... |
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 |
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