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/.

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Occupation Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay
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 Helen Waddell
Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...
Occupation Cicely Hamilton
CH played her first role in a major West End production, George Bernard Shaw 's Fanny's First Play.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press.
131
Occupation Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin.
79
like George Eliot , for George Sand as a prolific writing-cow,
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin.
80
and...
Occupation Lady Colin Campbell
George Bernard Shaw nominated her to replace him as art critic for The World, A Journal for Men and Women.
Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd.
153
Performance of text Evelyn Glover
The play's vivid characters and snappy dialogue, alongside its minimal staging requirements, made it one of the most popular plays in the AFL's suffrage repertoire.
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
88
That year, the Connoisseurs theatre group mounted a production...
Performance of text George Paston
This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre alongside Bernard Shaw 's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
TD had her great success with the play Katie Roche, which after its debut at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, was in 1938 seen both at the Abbey's festival (alongside work by O'Casey
politics Laura Ormiston Chant
Chant's successful opposition to the licence renewal received very public criticism as well as support. Punch dubbed her Mrs Prowlina Pry. One of the opponents of restricting the licence, Arthur Symons , asked rhetorically...
politics Olivia Manning
OM was a Fabian socialist while she was very young, reacting against her father's Toryism and admiring the work of Bernard Shaw . Even as a radical, however, she approved on balance of the British...
politics Dora Russell
It featured such speakers as Vera Brittain , Ethel Mannin , Naomi Mitchison , Marie Stopes , Desmond MacCarthy , Bertrand Russell , and G. B. Shaw . Papers given included DR 's Marriage and...
politics Ethel Sidgwick
The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour...
politics Annie Besant
AB , now a socialist, became executive secretary of Fabian Society (which she had joined that year, nominated for election to membership by George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb ).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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politics Annie Besant
AB led the first strike of match girls, formed their union, and was elected its Secretary in July 1888. They were inspired, in part, by her article on their working conditions, published in The Link...

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