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/.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Muriel Box
MB 's writing career was fuelled by an early admiration for Shaw , Joyce , and especially Woolf . A Room of One's Own had such an impact on her within a few years of...
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...
Friends, Associates Rosamund Marriott Watson
She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird , E. Nesbit , Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Alice Meynell . She was also a friend of William Sharp , Austin Dobson
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG equally admired A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson , founders of the Leeds Arts Club . At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter , W. B. Yeats , G. K. Chesterton , George Bernard Shaw
Friends, Associates Sylvia Pankhurst
Around this time, George Bernard Shaw urged SP to concentrate on welfare work and forget about politics because she could not even convert her mother and Christabel.
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
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Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage
Friends, Associates Amy Levy
They included Olive Schreiner , the future Beatrice Webb , Dollie Maitland Radford , Margaret Harkness , Clementina Black (whose sister Constance had been a school friend of AL ), and Eleanor Marx . Through...
Friends, Associates Beatrice Webb
Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane , Labour leader Arthur Henderson , Liberal politician Herbert Samuel , G. B. Shaw , and political psychologist Graham Wallas , the last two both Fabians. They...
Friends, Associates Katharine Bruce Glasier
Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney and Beatrice Webb , Edward Hulton (editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford , for whom she wrote several articles.
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited.
71
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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Robins
ER was romantically linked to William Archer for most of the 1890s.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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In 1909 and 1910, she carried...
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
Friends, Associates Muriel Box
During her time in Welwyn, MB became a friend of Flora Robson , for whom celebrity still lay far in the future. She also had a fascinating and instructive meeting with Shaw when she and...

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