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/.
The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour...
politics
Annie Besant
AB
, now a socialist, became executive secretary of Fabian Society
(which she had joined that year, nominated for election to membership by George Bernard Shaw
and Sidney Webb
).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
174-5, 177-8
Author summary
Florence Farr
FF
has received less attention for her own writing than for the role she played in men's: Shaw
and Yeats
created dramatic roles for her; Pound
wrote poetry about her; and she put into practice...
Publishing
Constance Lytton
After the Home Secretary assured the Fabian Society
through the columns of the Times that CL
had been released from prison because of her delicate health, not her class, replies appeared both from her and...
Publishing
Elizabeth von Arnim
Reviewers judged EA
's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable. Macmillan
published her Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise Shavian
); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration...
Publishing
Katharine Bruce Glasier
Writing this book helped KBG
enormously in coming to terms with her grief over her son's death. The first edition was said to have sold out rapidly and is now very rare. In a new...
Publishing
Storm Jameson
SJ
first reached print with an essay on G. B. Shaw
, published in the New Age.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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Publishing
James Joyce
This followed its rejection by managements in England, Ireland and America, the first pronounced by George Bernard Shaw
and the second by W. B. Yeats
.
O’Brien, Edna. “The ogre of betrayal”. The Guardian, pp. Review 10 - 11.
11
The first English-language production took place in New...
Publishing
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Time and Tide carried two excerpts from Woolf
's A Room of One's Own in November 1929, and the next year MHVR
wrote two series of articles on the treatment of women and gender in...
Reception
Sylvia Pankhurst
On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw
had reached many thousands of people...
Reception
Elizabeth Robins
On ER
's request, Cicely Hamilton
adapted the novel as a play, but it was never performed. The Lord Chamberlain refused to license it on the grounds that it ought not be allowed to run...
Reception
Ethel Lilian Voynich
The novel has been adapted in the form of five separate films (one scored by Dmitri Shostakovich
), five theatrical productions (one by George Bernard Shaw
written specifically to secure theatrical copyright for ELV
...
Residence
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at...
Textual Features
Ada Leverson
In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers...
Textual Features
Hélène Barcynska
This clearly draws on the relationship between HB
and Charles as she was to describe it in her autobiography. The fairy has kept herself for two weeks by her writing, but now seems more interested...
