Non-Frames Version Frames Version Raw XML File (412k) George Bernard Shaw: An Inventory of his Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Descriptive Summary Creator Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950 Title George Bernard Shaw Collection Dates: 1757-1963 (bulk 1875-1950) Abstract: Holograph manuscripts and typescripts of working and finished versions of plays, essays, correspondence, and financial and legal records are all represented in this collection. Diaries, scrapbooks, materials accumulated by Shaw's wife, and drafts of articles and books written about the Nobel Prize winning Irish journalist and playwright are also present. The bulk of the materials reflect many of Shaw's most popular works, including Candida Pygmalion (1912), and Saint Joan Quantity: 80 boxes (33.3 linear feet), 1 oversize box, 13 galley folders, 10 oversize files, and 1 bound volume Identification: Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin Biographical Sketch His first years in London, 1876-1884, were filled with frustration and poverty. Depending on his mother's income as a music teacher and a pound a week sent by his father from Dublin, Shaw spent his days in the British Museum reading room writing novels and reading, and his evenings attending lectures and debates by the middle class intelligentsia. He became a vegetarian, a socialist, a skillful orator, and developed his first beginnings as a playwright. A driving force behind the Fabian Society, he threw himself into committee work, wrote socialist pamphlets, and spoke to crowds several times a week. Shaw began his journalism career as a book reviewer and art, music, and drama critic, always downgrading the artificialities and hypocrisies he found in those arts. | |
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