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/.
The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
title-page
The country community where the story is set centres closely on Crump, the great house of the ancient Lyndesay...
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...
Friends, Associates
Helen Waddell
Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer
Friends, Associates
Edith Somerville
ES
first heard of George Bernard Shaw
not as a writer but when he married one of her cousins. Her first reaction was one of prejudice: against his lower-middle-class background, his socialism, and his revulsive...
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Friends, Associates
Annie Besant
AB
met Edward Aveling
, described by George Bernard Shaw
as a borrower of money and a swindler and seducer of women,
Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin.
51
around the time that she began university studies. Unlike Shaw, AB
thought...
Friends, Associates
Annie Besant
Soon after AB
met George Bernard Shaw
, possibly as early as 1884, they became close friends, sharing a bond in their activities with the Fabian Society
. Shaw later claimed that some romantic intrigue...
Friends, Associates
Lady Colin Campbell
Considered déclassée by high society, LCC
found her way into more liberal, artistic circles. She associated with the artist Whistler
(who painted a portrait, now lost) and with writers George Bernard Shaw
and Henry James
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.
