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 | 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 |
| 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 | Oscar Wilde | Shaw
's review for The Saturday Review welcomed its modern note. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf. 428-9 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
thought this was one of AG
's best plays, subtler and finer Shaw, George Bernard. “Note on Lady Gregory’s Plays”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Dan H. Laurence et al., Colin Smythe, pp. 274-6. 275 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
thought that AG
's playwriting skills were particularly suited to the task: that in her double command of the world of fancy, and the world of the vividest, funniest fact, Lady Gregory's genius... |
| Literary responses | Harriett Jay | While the play achieved popular success, its literary merits were attacked. The reviewer for The Stage declared it a sub-par adaptation of George Bernard Shaw
's Pygmalion and Galatea, claiming that the authors have... |
| 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. 116-17 |
| 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... |
| 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. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Bernardine Evaristo | BE
substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family... |
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