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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 ...
Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

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List of Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Ellen Terry and Her Circle – Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters – Katharine Cockin 1 Part I : Ellen Terry's Influences on Others 1 Introduction: Ellen Terry's Lost Lives – Nina  ...
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.
The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive.
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 Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

Katharine Cockin

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive.
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.
Ellen Ross, private detective

Ellen Ross, private detective

Adrian Robert

When Terry doesn't allow Ellen to play police detective with him, Ellen becomes a private detective on her own. Then Terry finds he really does need her help on an important case.
Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time

Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

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In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram ...
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
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.
Robert E. Lee: A Life Portrait

Robert E. Lee: A Life Portrait

David J. Eicher

... “Nannie” of Clermont S76 Fitzhugh Lee (1835—1905) C.S.A. I 577 Ellen Bernard Fowle (?—?) T60 Ellen Lee (?—?) [Mentioned by Edmund Jennings Lee , Jr., but not other sources; see reference A above] T61 Fitzgerald Lee (?—?) ...

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