Patricia Riley

Patricia Riley calls this play a wickedly funny exposé of armchair socialists. But its stage presence was short-lived. The fashion for curtain-raisers was past, and attempts to sell it as musical-hall material failed.

Patricia Riley doubts that this play could be successfully performed, since the already outdated ideas of Elizabeth could provoke nothing but bafflement.

GS suffered a remarkably complete eclipse for at least half a century after her death, before the women's movement revived interest, albeit uninformed, in her life and work. In 2009 her memory was honoured on...

A volume of children's verse by GS entitled My Birthday, 1911, includes a poem singled out by Patricia Riley as embodying Sowerby's new Fabian beliefs. Tuesday's Child (a child who, according to the traditional...

GS wrote her last play, entitled Direct Action. It has not been (in 2010) staged or published. Her biographer, Patricia Riley , discovered the manuscript in a hatbox of memorabilia at the apartment of...