Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Viola Tree | In 1911 Bernard Shaw
, who was an opera critic as well as a playwright, and a Tree family friend (his donations were crucial to the success of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
), wrote... |
| Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Publishing | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Stepniak and his work, including Underground Russia, 1883, were influential in ELV
's personal life and career. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, pp. 876-7. 876 |
| 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
... |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
| Occupation | Helen Waddell | |
| 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. 90-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird
, E. Nesbit
, Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Alice Meynell
. She was also a friend of William Sharp
, Austin Dobson |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
embarked on travel writing with Labels: A Mediterranean Journal, 1930, which sets out in breezy letter-writing style to record comfortable travel (around the Middle East and North Africa as well as southern Europe... |
| Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane
, Labour leader Arthur Henderson
, Liberal politician Herbert Samuel
, G. B. Shaw
, and political psychologist Graham Wallas
, the last two both Fabians. They... |
| death | Beatrice Webb | Her body was cremated and buried at Passfield Corner, until at Bernard Shaw
's somewhat incongruous suggestion, the ashes of both Webbs were re-buried together in Politicians' Corner, Westminster Abbey, on 12 December 1947... |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | They had published a kind of trial run for this work in 1903, entitled The History of Liquor Licensing in England, principally from 1700 to 1830. For the later and larger book, the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman), Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo. 102 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | In 1905 Edith Harper met Patrick Hepburn
, a lawyer and amateur astronomer who made significant discoveries about the rings of Saturn. Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 22 Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11. 8-9 |
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