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/.
Sepia head-and-shoulders photograph of George Bernard Shaw by Bains News Service, 8 November 1909. He is seen full-face, with a neat beard, gazing a little to the right with a faint smile. He wears a wool jacket and waistcoat with thin stripes, and a bowler hat slightly tilted.

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Literary responses Sylvia Pankhurst
Save the Mothers was well reviewed. George Bernard Shaw responded enthusiastically to the book, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence expressed her pleasure at its positive reception. Vera Brittain also praised it, favourably comparing SP's activism for...
Literary responses George Egerton
Both lauded and lambasted, GE was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire.
Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press, 1997.
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But after all her popularity and notoriety at...
Literary responses Annie Besant
George Bernard Shaw discovered AB's turn to Theosophy when he found proofs for this publication on her desk; his reaction was intense and negative.
Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin, 1986.
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Literary responses Helen Waddell
Two Dublin actors, HW's brother Sam and Lennox Robinson, praised the play for the opportunities it offered to performers, and Waddell was very excited when George Bernard Shaw read and liked it.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
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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, 1989.
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Literary responses Edith Somerville
He, however, comprehensively condemned it.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Another attempt to sell the manuscript, in 1935, was also a failure.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Material Conditions of Writing Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin and Heinemann before her friend John Lane accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
names G. B. Stern
  • BirthName: Gladys Bertha Stern
    At school, she later remembered, she was called Gladys Stern.
    Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
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  • Nicknames: Peter
    This was the name used by her friends. She gave it to a heroine of an early book...
Occupation Constance Smedley
In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave), CS set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame. She writes that she was successful in...
Occupation Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
His work had great impact in England, where he was praised by George Bernard Shaw, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster. Constance Garnett translated many of his works...
Occupation Augusta Gregory
Horniman, an English heiress, disapproved of the Abbey's involvement in politics, and tensions emerged with some of its key members. AG eventually bought out Horniman's Abbey shares.
Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan ODay, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27.
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AG worked tirelessly and passionately in the...
Occupation Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford, novelist, was the club's...
Occupation Edith Craig
After the Pioneer Players folded, EC became actively involved in the Little Theatre movement which was rapidly growing outside London.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Between December 1920 and August 1921 she directed several plays at the Everyman Theatre
Occupation Florence Farr
Annie Horniman, whom FF met through the Order of the Golden Dawn, agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted...
Occupation Inez Bensusan
Organisers chose to present two feminist plays by men, Woman on Her Own by Eugène Brieux, translated by Charlotte Shaw (Bernard Shaw's wife), and A Gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
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, June 1995, pp. 123-37.
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