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/.
Sepia head-and-shoulders photograph of George Bernard Shaw by Bains News Service, 8 November 1909. He is seen full-face, with a neat beard, gazing a little to the right with a faint smile. He wears a wool jacket and waistcoat with thin stripes, and a bowler hat slightly tilted.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Browning (1812-1889)
W. B. Yeats 's father...
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...
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...
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
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...
Friends, Associates Edith Craig
This made them close neighbours of George Bernard and Charlotte Shaw . Story has it that Craig got a role in Shaw's Getting Married after he heard her calling up to St John to throw...
Friends, Associates Flora Thompson
Grayshott offered more extensive opportunities. As well as offering the usual library and penny readings, it was a centre for literary celebrities. During her work in the post-office FT observed and caught snatches of the...
Friends, Associates William Morris
WM 's associates included George Bernard Shaw , Annie Besant , Emery Walker , Vernon Lee , as well as Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst . His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti ended in 1875, as...
Friends, Associates Sylvia Beach
Beach and Joyce had a bet to see whether Bernard Shaw would purchase a copy of Ulysses. Beach lost when Shaw wrote to say that she knew little of [his] countrymen if she thought...
Friends, Associates Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw
Friends, Associates E. Nesbit
Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw (with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb , Sydney Olivier , Annie Besant , Eleanor Marx ,...
Friends, Associates Emma Frances Brooke
EFB 's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society , she interacted with Beatrice and Sidney Webb

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