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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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | George Egerton | In 1907 GE
wrote a comedy entitled His Wife's Family, about an Irishwoman's allegiance to her own relations as opposed to those of her husband. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 65, 68 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth: Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press. 2 |
| Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | This magazine aimed to reach the cultured public, and bring before it in a convincing and moderate form, the case for the Enfranchisement of Women. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 91-2 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
| Textual Production | Annie Besant | AB
owned and edited the magazine Our Corner, which was launched in 1883 and ran until 1888. It cost sixpence and featured fiction, essays, and poetry along with puzzles, and information about chess, gardening... |
| Textual Production | Freya Stark | In Such Good Friends and Friends of a Lifetime, Sir Sydney Cockerell
published a selection of letters from his (mostly famous) associates; according to critics, among the best were those written by G. B. Shaw |
| Textual Production | Lady Colin Campbell | As Q. E. D., she wrote a column called In the Picture Galleries, reviewing art exhibitions and addressing current events. Fleming, G. H. Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian ’Sex Goddess’. The Windrush Press. 243 |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
embarked on travel writing with Labels: A Mediterranean Journal, 1930, which sets out in breezy letter-writing style to record comfortable travel (around the Middle East and North Africa as well as southern Europe... |
| Textual Production | Henry Handel Richardson | It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like... |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | They had published a kind of trial run for this work in 1903, entitled The History of Liquor Licensing in England, principally from 1700 to 1830. For the later and larger book, the... |
| Textual Production | Henrik Ibsen | Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx
) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris
(daughter of William Morris
) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw
as Krogstad. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233-4 |
| Textual Production | Christopher St John | After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw
: a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an... |
| Textual Production | Marie Stopes | Other later poems include Wartime Harvest, 1944 (which brought together a preface by Lord Alfred Douglas
and a letter from George Bernard Shaw
), and Instead of Tears: In Memoriam for Officers and Men... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | In the course of getting the journal off the ground, Marsden also contacted Katherine Mansfield
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
, Charlotte Payne-Townshend
, Arnold Bennett
, and Theodore Dreiser
. (Payne-Townshend, wife of G. B. Shaw |
| Textual Production | Sarah Grand | An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG
's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton
in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn) |
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,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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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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