Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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/.
During her time in Welwyn, MB
became a friend of Flora Robson
, for whom celebrity still lay far in the future. She also had a fascinating and instructive meeting with Shaw
when she and...
Friends, Associates
Evelyn Sharp
She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Pember Reeves
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Edith Craig
This made them close neighbours of George Bernard
and Charlotte Shaw
. Story has it that Craig got a role in Shaw's Getting Married after he heard her calling up to St John to throw...
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...
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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
,...
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
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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.
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.
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She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw
.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
