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Brome, Vincent. Six
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biography)
Chappelow, Allan, ed. Shaw
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Chappelow. Shaw—‘the chucker-out’: a biographical exposition and critique
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Collis, Maurice. Nancy
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Corrigan, Felicitas. The
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Dervin, Daniel. Bernard
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326 pp
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Ervine, St. John. Bernard
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Evans, T. F. ‘“Not a disease
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Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 2003
-----. ‘On Richmond Hill.’ Shavian
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-----. ‘Shaw in 1914.’ Shavian
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Farmer, Henry G. Bernard
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274 pp
Feldman, Eddy S. ‘George
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Shavian 5 iii 1964 12-17
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Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 2003
-----. Bernard Shaw: a
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-----. ‘“Giant brain ... no
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Hart, Jonathan. Interpreting
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Hegedüs, Géza. ‘George
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Holroyd, Michael.
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his native land)
-----. Bernard Shaw,
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complete notes and cumulative index for all four volumes. 1992. 494 pp (all
volumes publ. in London by Chatto & Windus; their fourth volume [same
paging] is treated as volumes 4-5 and entitled The Shaw companion)
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-----. ‘The quest for George
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-----. ‘Shaw and biography:
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-----. Works on paper:
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Knightley, Philip, &
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Lagerström, Bertil. I
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Langner, Lawrence. G.B.S.
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-----. ‘Shaw’s children.’ SHAW
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-----. ‘How G. B. Shaw
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i 1971 3-11
Longstreth, Galen G.
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Mackenzie, Norman &
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Nethercot, Arthur. The
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-----. ‘A plea for BERNARD
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O’Casey, Eileen. Cheerio,
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O’Donovan, John. Shaw and
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-----. Extraordinary
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also 165-74
-----. ‘My uninvited
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-----. Shaw and the
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Peters, Sally. Bernard
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Rodgers, W. R., ed. Irish
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Rosset, B. C. Shaw of
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-----. ‘The initial sketch and the growth of a
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Van Vuuren, Melissa, &
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-----. ‘Bernard Shaw besieged:
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-----. ‘Bernard Shaw, diarist: an
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-----. ‘The indefatigable non-correspondent:
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-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xx in The
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-----. Journey to heartbreak: the crucible
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journey to heartbreak)
-----. Private Shaw and public Shaw: a
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-----. ‘Shaw’s goddess: Lady Colin Campbell.’
SHAW 25 2005 241-56
-----. Shaw’s people: Victoria to
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versions of many articles, among them:
5-29: ‘Exasperated
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iii-iv 1987 115-32)
56-72: ‘Bernard Shaw in darkest England: G.B.S. and the Salvation Army’s
“General” William Booth’ (from SHAW 10 1990 45-59)
-----. ‘Shaw’s sculptress, Kathleen Scott.’ SHAW
24 2004 167-85
-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical
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Penn State UP, 1996)
-----. ‘Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Winsten, Stephen. Days with Bernard Shaw.
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-----. Jesting apostle: the private life
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