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Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor

Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor

Bernard Shaw

This collection of nearly 250 letters between Shaw and Astor - as well as between Astor and Shaw's wife, Charlotte, and Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch - illustrates the rewarding friendship the two shared and the numerous issues they ...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

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In his book, George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905), he called Shaw 'a world- figure in the modern drama' and said that 'in all the history of the English stage, no man has exceeded him in technical resources nor in nimbleness of wit.' When he ...
Plays Unpleasant

Plays Unpleasant

George Bernard Shaw

He is seen championing Shakespeare the poet as emphatically as Isben the social thinker, while his campaign to convert Irving to Ibsenism is seen in the essays and is discussed temperately in the Introduction.Keywords: Bernard Shaw Mrs ...
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

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This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

George Bernard Shaw

She waited a minute in pensive silence, and then said, “Why do you not marry Alice Goff?” “Oh, hang Alice Goff!” “It is so easy to come at the man beneath the veneer by expertly chipping at his feelings,” said Lydia, laughing. “But I was serious, ...
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

George Bernard Shaw

She waited a minute in pensive silence, and then said, “Why do you not marry Alice Goff?” “Oh, hang Alice Goff!” “It is so easy to come at the man beneath the veneer by expertly chipping at his feelings,” said Lydia, laughing. “But I was serious, ...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Eldon Cleon Hill

Traces Shaw's creative development as it coincided with the events of his life and the appearance of his major plays
Collected Letters: 1874-1897

Collected Letters: 1874-1897

Bernard Shaw

Gathers correspondence between Shaw and his family, friends, acquaintances in the theater and politics, and fellow writers during the period leading up to his first success as a playwright
Shaw's daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender

Shaw's daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender

J. Ellen Gainor

A critical reexamination of George Bernard Shaw's dramatic treatment of women.
Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde

Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde

Robert Harborough Sherard

A study of the Shaw-Harris-Wilde literary relationship.
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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The Bradleys and allied families of South Carolina

The Bradleys and allied families of South Carolina

Sarah Isabelle Bradley Ensworth

(b) William David Shaw 4. (c) Elizabeth Shaw 2. (2) (1) John Shaw, X Shaw, born May 21, 1750. The date of his death is found on the tombstone in the old Shaw burying -ground, five miles below Brick Church, "Sacred to the memory of John ...
A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

T.J. Carty

... Felicia Mary Frances Skene SEVERAL YOUNG PERSONS Jane Taylor with Ann Taylor SEVERN, DAVID David Storr ... Griffiths SHAW, FELICITY Ann Morice SHAW, GORDON Stanley Gordon Shaw SHAW, IRENE Irene Roberts SHAW, ...
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

Henry Louis Mencken

Intended as a "little handbook" for Americans interested in Shaw's work, this volume brings Mencken's good sense & probing criticism to bear on the playwright's work, & also presents for the reader Mencken's distillation of the criticism of ...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

G. K. Chesterton

This is essential reading for those seeking the best English literature has to offer.
Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde

Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde

Robert Harborough Sherard

This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Bernard Shaw and the BBC

Bernard Shaw and the BBC

Leonard W. Conolly

This is a fascinating study of how controversial works were first performed in both radio and television's infancies.
Poe Meets Shaw: The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

Poe Meets Shaw: The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

Tim Browne

This is the first book in 50 years to be published in the Shaw Alphabet with a side by side comparison with traditional spelling.
Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English ...

Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English ...

Peter Ward

... Protestant churches and, 26-30 sexuality: Christian doctrine on, 15-19; Roman Catholic doctrine and enforcement, 21-5 Shanley, Walter, 123 Shaw, C.G., 153 Shaw, Isabella, 107 Shaw, Kinsley, 111 Sherwood, Sophia, 129-30 shivaree: see  ...
University of Edinburgh Journal

University of Edinburgh Journal

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1948, ph.d. 1973: Dr Robertson graduated B.Sc. with honours in Zoology. Helena Jane Robertson, m.b. 1920: in Glasgow, 19th ... Geoffrey Shaw, or Councillor Geoffrey Shaw as he was known latterly, was a son of J. J. M. Shaw, the Edinburgh ...
Dubrovnik Travel Guide: Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & ...

Dubrovnik Travel Guide: Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & ...

Jonathan Watkins

George Bernard Shaw once said that “if you want to see heaven on earth, come to Dubrovnik” and given the city's breathtaking views, it's easy to see why.
Major Barbara

Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw

When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but ultimately realizes that through wealth, people can help each other.

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