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/.
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...
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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.
107
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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...
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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.
Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles.
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited.
71
With...
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Elizabeth Robins
ER
was romantically linked to William Archer
for most of the 1890s.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
79
She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw
.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
81-2
In 1909 and 1910, she carried...
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Edith Lyttelton
EL
numbered among her close friends the well-known actress Mrs Patrick Campbell
, whom she first met in 1890. Campbell performed in several of her plays. In 1912, EL
was an intermediary when Bernard Shaw