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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 ...
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, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Victorians and mystery: crises of representation

Victorians and mystery: crises of representation

William David Shaw

Victorian literature, according to Shaw, gives rise to a wealth of questions and mysteries.
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
Origins of the Monologue: The Hidden God

Origins of the Monologue: The Hidden God

William David Shaw

Focusing on such pricipal creators as Browning and Tennyson, Shaw shows how changes in cultural history can transform a major poetic genre.
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.
Acceptable Losses: A Novel

Acceptable Losses: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Brutal Uncut

Brutal Uncut

Aiden Shaw

Adult film superstar Aiden Shaw follows up his bestselling memoir, My Undoing, with a no-holds-barred look at sexual excess.
Lucy Crown: A Novel

Lucy Crown: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Genealogy of the Wheat, Foster, McCoy and connected families

Genealogy of the Wheat, Foster, McCoy and connected families

Laura Emily Wheat Foster

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Boundaries

Boundaries

Aiden Shaw

The eagerly awaited second novel from Aiden Shaw, author of the best-selling Brutal.
Wasted

Wasted

Aiden Shaw

Adult film superstar Aiden Shaw follows up his bestselling memoir, My Undoing, with the third novel in a gritty and stimulating trilogy of sexual excess (following Boundaries and Brutal: Uncut).
The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute

The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute

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Mr. W. L. Finlay of Rem-Cru Titanium Inc. has been awarded the degree of Ph.D. ▻ Mr. C. C. Hanson has left High Grade ... Department of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. Birthday Honours Mr. Geoffrey Shaw, of W. Shaw and Co., Ltd. , ...
Touching the Light

Touching the Light

Keith Zang

After learning Reiki from Randy Shaw, I began a journey of guided education and self-teaching for the next two years. Randy Shaw opened the doors to many new experiences and, through his guidance, I learned much very quickly.
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 ...
Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde

Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde

Robert Harborough Sherard

A study of the Shaw-Harris-Wilde literary relationship.
What is Genocide?

What is Genocide?

Martin Shaw

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw’s classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide.
Eye to Eye

Eye to Eye

Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw's debut crime novel Cat Catcher won deservedly great reviews.
Secrets of the Oracle: A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats

Secrets of the Oracle: A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats

William David Shaw

Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives?Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written.
Journal of Education

Journal of Education

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By A. C. JONES, MA., Ph.D.. and P. H. WVKES, M.A. Without Answers, 5s.; with Answers, 5s. ... Norman O'Neill Geoffrey Shaw George Rathbone Dr. Harold Darke Q. von Hoist Thomas F. Dunhill Martin Shaw Liza Lehmann Ernest Farrar Dr.
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton

Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton

Joseph Pearce

This is a thoroughly readable and delightful biography of a multi-faceted author, artist and debater who loved the friendship of children, idolized his wife and enjoyed great friendships with the likes of Hillaire Belloc, Bernard Shaw and H ...

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