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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Education Muriel Box
MB early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer ) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy...
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...
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...
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
Education Emma Frances Brooke
The school, which was founded this year by Beatrice and Sidney Webb , Graham Wallas , and George Bernard Shaw , focused on the study of inequalities and poverty issues with the aim of improving...
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
Textual Features Brigid Brophy
The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire (who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon
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...
Textual Features Mildred Cable
This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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It likens illiteracy to slavery: where slavery was criminal traffic in bodies, illiteracy is a traffic in the minds of men.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press.
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MC
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 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
Occupation Lady Colin Campbell
George Bernard Shaw nominated her to replace him as art critic for The World, A Journal for Men and Women.
Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd.
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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.
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She and Shaw collaborated on columns, and Shaw would sometimes write an...
Literary responses Lady Colin Campbell
Widely read and highly praised, LCC was described as among the best art critics of her time, doing for the visual arts what her colleague George Bernard Shaw was doing for music.
Fleming, G. H. Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian ’Sex Goddess’. The Windrush Press.
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Timeline

1914: Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old...

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1914

Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old Vic Theatre under the management of Lilian Baylis .

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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as her biographer puts it.

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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