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.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | William Morris | WM
's associates included George Bernard Shaw
, Annie Besant
, Emery Walker
, Vernon Lee
, as well as Emmeline
and Sylvia Pankhurst
. His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
ended in 1875, as... |
| Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | Beach and Joyce
had a bet to see whether Bernard Shaw
would purchase a copy of Ulysses. Beach lost when Shaw wrote to say that she knew little of [his] countrymen if she thought... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw |
| Friends, Associates | Flora Thompson | Grayshott offered more extensive opportunities. As well as offering the usual library and penny readings, it was a centre for literary celebrities. During her work in the post-office FT
observed and caught snatches of the... |
| Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw
(with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb
, Sydney Olivier
, Annie Besant
, Eleanor Marx
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike
and Lewis Casson
, Ottoline Morrell
, T. S. Eliot
, W. B. Yeats
, G. B.
and Charlotte Shaw
, Desmond MacCarthy
... |
| Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
| Friends, Associates | Sylvia Pankhurst | Around this time, George Bernard Shaw
urged SP
to concentrate on welfare work and forget about politics because she could not even convert her mother and Christabel. qtd. in Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 107 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | Sylvia Pankhurst
enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, and G. B. Shaw
also visited. The school hosted annual... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Robins | ER
was romantically linked to William Archer
for most of the 1890s. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 79 John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 81-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | While lecturing at the Zetetical Society
, AK
may have met Bernard Shaw
and Sidney Webb
. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006. 91 |
| Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | AB
met Edward Aveling
, described by George Bernard Shaw
as a borrower of money and a swindler and seducer of women, qtd. in Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin, 1986. 51 |
| Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | Soon after AB
met George Bernard Shaw
, possibly as early as 1884, they became close friends, sharing a bond in their activities with the Fabian Society
. Shaw later claimed that some romantic intrigue... |
| 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 |
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