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/.
AB
owned and edited the magazine Our Corner, which was launched in 1883 and ran until 1888. It cost sixpence and featured fiction, essays, and poetry along with puzzles, and information about chess, gardening...
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Freya Stark
In Such Good Friends and Friends of a Lifetime, Sir Sydney Cockerell
published a selection of letters from his (mostly famous) associates; according to critics, among the best were those written by G. B. Shaw
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Lady Colin Campbell
As Q. E. D., she wrote a column called In the Picture Galleries, reviewing art exhibitions and addressing current events.
Fleming, G. H. Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian ’Sex Goddess’. The Windrush Press.
243
She and Shaw
collaborated on columns, and Shaw would sometimes write an...
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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...
It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like...
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Henrik Ibsen
Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx
) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris
(daughter of William Morris
) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw
as Krogstad.
Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51.
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Christopher St John
After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw
: a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an...
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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...
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Marie Stopes
Other later poems include Wartime Harvest, 1944 (which brought together a preface by Lord Alfred Douglas
and a letter from George Bernard Shaw
), and Instead of Tears: In Memoriam for Officers and Men...
An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG
's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton
in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn)
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Augusta Gregory
The volume includes detailed accounts of the Abbey
's encounters with English and Irish censorship, including the struggles over Shaw
's The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Synge
's The Playboy of the Western World...
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E. Nesbit
Daphne fictionalizes her affair with Shaw
: it traces Daphne's experience from first passionate kiss to the misery of being rejected.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
91, 94, 98
Shaw
appears as Mr Henry; EN
covers her tracks to some...
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Florence Farr
One piece critiques Shaw
's clinical treatment of his female models: [H]e seats her in a dentist's chair, puts a gag in her mouth, isolates a tooth as ruthlessly as any dentist and then takes...
