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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Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman), Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo. 102 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | In 1905 Edith Harper met Patrick Hepburn
, a lawyer and amateur astronomer who made significant discoveries about the rings of Saturn. Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 22 Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11. 8-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | FF
's father, William Farr
, was a successful doctor, medical statistician, and reformer. He lectured and published on the subject of hygiene, which he preferred to call hygiology. Bernard Shaw
describes him as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | She describes her mother as in advance of her times in many ways: a bicycle rider, a Poor Law Guardian, Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | They separated after four years, when Emery left for America. He became a successful actor there, and eventually remarried. Their reasons for separating are not clear, and FF
rarely mentioned him after he left. Years... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | FF
is now probably best remembered for her personal and professional relationships with two literary men, Bernard Shaw
and W. B. Yeats
. It seems that she met Shaw at William Morris
's house in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's younger sister, Sylvia, later Lady Brooke
, born in 1885, is herself of no minor literary significance. She authored numerous works including two autobiographies, romance novels, and short stories, and claimed J. M. Barrie |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
conducted a flirtation and probably a brief affair with Shaw
, whom she met at the Fabian Society
around 1885. In his words she became passionately attached to him, though it appears he had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
's time at the |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brigid Brophy | BB
's father, John Brophy
, was born in Liverpool of Irish stock. In 1914 he lied about his age and enlisted; his mother got him out of the army once by revealing he was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Bright first had a column in the Evening Sun, and later wrote for the Daily Express and the Pall Mall Gazette. He was sub-editor at the Evening Sun and night-editor at the Daily... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | It was rumoured that George Bernard Shaw
had said that if he had been wealthier he would have proposed to Constance himself. Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson. 46 |
Fictionalization | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
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 |
Timeline
1914: Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old...
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1914
February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...
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February 1916
Painter C. R. W. Nevinson
scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.
3 August 1916: In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish...
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3 August 1916
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish nationalist Roger Casement
, formerly Sir Roger, was executed for treason at Pentonville Prison
in London for attempting to smuggle a shipment of German arms to Ireland.
11 November 1920: Two years after the end of the Great War,...
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11 November 1920
Two years after the end of the Great War, Britain commemorated with the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall and the state funeral of an unidentified soldier in Westminster Abbey.
January 1921: The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious...
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January 1921
The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious feminist discussion, ceased publication in London.
June 1925: The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts...
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June 1925
The Independent Labour Party
founded an Arts Guild
to promote socialist drama and performance.
22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...
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22 June 1925
The Film Society
was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
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By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time, as her biographer puts it.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
23
1937: The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its...
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1937
The two-year-old Penguin Books
launched its Pelican imprint: a non-fiction series (mostly history, sociology, economics, or politics) which, unlike Penguin fiction, were new works not reprints.
1938: Anthony Asquith directed the film Pygmalion...
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1938
Anthony Asquith
directed the film Pygmalion (from George Bernard Shaw
's original play), which is remembered as his most successful film. Pygmalion went on to win two Oscars, including Shaw's for best screenplay.
1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...
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1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.
10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...
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10 May 1951
Actress Vivien Leigh
and actor Laurence Olivier
began the season at St James's Theatre
, London, alternately playing Shaw
's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra.
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