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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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. 349 |
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 | 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. 94 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 199 |
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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Edith Somerville | As civil war loomed in Ireland and need for money pressed, ES
made two efforts to convert the R. M. stories into a play. She first asked for help from Maurice Hastings
, a friend... |
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. 65, 68 |
Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth: Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press. 2 |
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. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 91-2 |
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. 243 |
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 | 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 |
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