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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Textual Features Brigid Brophy
The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire (who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon
Textual Features Mildred Cable
This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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It likens illiteracy to slavery: where slavery was criminal traffic in bodies, illiteracy is a traffic in the minds of men.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press, 1946.
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Textual Features Ada Leverson
In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers...
Textual Features Viola Meynell
Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
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Textual Features Hélène Barcynska
This clearly draws on the relationship between HB and Charles as she was to describe it in her autobiography. The fairy has kept herself for two weeks by her writing, but now seems more interested...
Textual Features Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Mice and Men is about a male middle-aged guardian who falls in love with his ward, a girl. This situation had already been seen on stage, and critics likened the play to earlier versions of...
Textual Features Winifred Peck
The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
Lady Rhondda , the editor of Time and Tide, had approached EMD earlier in 1929 about writing a light serial for the journal. EMD then attended a lunch with Lady Rhondda, at which George Bernard Shaw
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN shared with her husband the editorship (obtained for them in part by Shaw ) of the socialist journal To-Day, which serialized his novels.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Late in the nineteenth century she became poetry reviewer for the Athenæum.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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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...
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare , Byron , Shaw , and Wilde . It was shown on Sunday evenings.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
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...
Textual Production 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
Textual Production George Egerton
GE tried her hand at drama after marrying the drama critic Reginald Golding Bright .Her three plays, all dominated by female characters, were all performed without marked success.In 1905 she sent a play to George Bernard Shaw

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