JF
was active in several fields as well as her successful writing career. She ran two businesses, and was a co-founder with J. T. Grein
of the Independent Theatre
, launched in February 1891 and...
Performance of text
George Bernard Shaw
GBS
's first play to receive a performance, Widowers' Houses, a socialist critique of landlords' exploitation of poor tenants, was privately produced at J. T. Grein
's Independent Theatre
in London.
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Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
