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 | 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 | |
| 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 Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press, 1946. 111 |
| 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. 349 |
| 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 Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 524 |
| Textual Production | Edith Craig | The EC
archives are housed at the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum
at Tenterden in Kent. The collection includes prompt copies of plays by Paul Claudel
and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 235 |
| Textual Production | Marie Stopes | Other later poems include Wartime Harvest, 1944 (which brought together a preface by Lord Alfred Douglas
and a letter from George Bernard Shaw
), and Instead of Tears: In Memoriam for Officers and Men... |
| 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. 94 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 199 |
| 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 | 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... |
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