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 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 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 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 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 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.
195
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.
111
MC
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
Textual Production Henry Handel Richardson
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...
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
This magazine aimed to reach the cultured public, and bring before it in a convincing and moderate form, the case for the Enfranchisement of Women.
qtd. in
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
91-2
It carried contributions from Millicent Fawcett , Mary Lowndes
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
In 1907 GE wrote a comedy entitled His Wife's Family, about an Irishwoman's allegiance to her own relations as opposed to those of her husband.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
65, 68
She sent this play too to Shaw
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Annie Besant
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...
Textual Production 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, 1989.
243
She and Shaw collaborated on columns, and Shaw would sometimes write an...

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