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Biography, Biographers, and Career Summaries

 

 

Albertine, Susan. ‘Shaw’s interest in Harold Frederic.’ SHAW 6 1986 69-76

 

Antinori, John V. ‘Androcles and the lion hunter: G.B.S., George Sylvester Viereck, and the politics of personality.’ SHAW 11 1991 149-68

 

Benedictines of Stanbrook. In a great tradition; tribute to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Abbess of Stanbrook. London: Murray, 1956, 231-78: ‘The nun and the dramatist’

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘Passion at Lake Maggiore: Shaw, Molly Tompkins, and Italy, 1921-1950.’ SHAW 5 1985 81-114

 

Bertolini, John A. ‘Shaw responds to Shaw-bashing.’ SHAW 25 2005 126-34 (two incidents that demonstrate his magnanimity)

 

Bonham-Carter, Victor. Authors by profession, I. Los Altos, CA: Kaufmann, 1978, 187-208: ‘Bernard Shaw and the Society of Authors’

 

Bragan, K. ‘Individuality, narcissism and the bipolar self.’ Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 24 1990 537-42 (Shaw and Wilde contrasted)

 

Brome, Vincent. Six studies in quarreling. London: Cresset Pr., 1958, 137-69: ‘G. K. Chesterton versus Bernard Shaw’

 

Bron, Eleanor. ‘Life studies: how do biographers select their victims?’ Listener 120 Sep 8 1988 4-6 (interview with Michael Holroyd)

 

Brophy, Brigid. ‘The way of no flesh.’ Pp 95-111 in Holroyd

 

Carter, Patricia M. ‘“Until it was historical”: a letter and an interview.’ SHAW 24 2004 11-37 (recent revelations about Shaw’s affair with Molly Tompkins)

 

Cash, William F. ‘What they really wrote about G.B.S.: Shaw and Pearson’s “Retreat to Moscow.”’ Journal of Modern Literature 13 1986 211-24 (revision of a chapter in Pearson’s biography)

 

Chappelow, Allan, ed. Shaw the villager and human being: a biographical symposium. London: Charles Skilton, 1961. 354 pp (comments of 60 people living in Ayot St Lawrence); Chappelow. Shaw—‘the chucker-out’: a biographical exposition and critique and a companion to and commentary on ‘Shaw the villager’. London: Allen & Unwin, 1969. 578 pp (comments on the issues raised)

 

Collis, Maurice. Nancy Astor. NY: Dutton, 1960, 142-46, 160-73

 

Corrigan, Felicitas. The nun, the infidel & the superman: the remarkable friendships of Dame Laurentia McLachlan with Sydney Cockerell, Bernard Shaw, and others. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1985. 152 pp

 

Crawford, Fred D. ‘Journals to Stella.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 93-109 (Swift’s compared to Shaw’s)

 

Dekkers, Odin. ‘Robertson and Shaw: an “unreasonable friendship.”’ English Literature in Transition 39 1996 431-49 (John Mackinnon Robertson)

 

Dervin, Daniel. Bernard Shaw: a psychological study. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1975. 350 pp

 

Dunbar, Janet. Mrs. G.B.S.: a biographical portrait of Charlotte Shaw. London: Harrap, 1963. 326 pp

 

Durbin, James H. ‘Ayot St. Lawrence and the middle border.’ Coranto 1 ii 1964 3-13 (Shaw-Hamlin Garland relationship)

 

Ervine, St. John. Bernard Shaw: his life, work and friends. NY: Morrow, 1956. 628 pp

 

Evans, T. F. ‘“Not a disease but a social necessity!” Shaw and the function of the artist.’ Pp 18-30 in Peter Kuch & Julie-Ann Robson, eds. Irelands in the Asia-Pacific. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 2003

 

-----. ‘On Richmond Hill.’ Shavian 4 1970 93-97

 

-----. ‘Shaw in 1914.’ Shavian 2 ix 1964 17-25

 

Farmer, Henry G. Bernard Shaw’s sister and her friends: a new angle on G.B.S. Leiden: Brill, 1959. 274 pp

 

Feldman, Eddy S. ‘George Bernard Shaw: friend of libraries.’ Coranto 1 ii 1964 14-23; repr. in California Shavian 5 iii 1964 12-17

 

Fisher, James. ‘“The Colossus” versus “Master Teddy”: the Bernard Shaw / Edward Gordon Craig feud.’ SHAW 9 1989 199-221

 

Fromm, Harold. ‘Holroyd / Strachey / Shaw: art and archives in literary biography.’ Hudson Review 62 1989 201-21

 

Furlong, William B. GBS / GKC: Shaw and Chesterton: the metaphysical jesters. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1970. 208 pp

 

Gibbs, A. M. ‘Ascendancy down under: George Bernard Shaw’s Irish and Australian relations.’ Pp 215-35 in Peter Kuch & Julie-Ann Robson, eds. Irelands in the Asia-Pacific. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 2003

 

-----. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005. 555 pp

 

-----. ‘“Giant brain ... no heart”: Bernard Shaw’s reception in criticism and biography.’ Irish University Review 26 1996 15-36; see also his ‘Bernard Shaw’s family skeletons: a new look.’ Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal 3 i 1997 57-74 (both treat ‘problems in Shavian biography,’ especially Holroyd’s)

 

Hart, Jonathan. Interpreting cultures: literature, religion, and the human sciences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 106-41: ‘Writing and history: T. E. Lawrence and Bernard and Charlotte Shaw’ (incorporates ‘T. E. Lawrence and the Shaws.’ Pp 131-61 in Charles Stang, ed. The waking dream of T. E. Lawrence: essays on his life, literature, and legacy. NY: Palgrave, 2002)

 

Hegedüs, Géza. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 57-80 in László Báti & István Kristó-Nagy, eds. Az angol irodalom a huszadik században, I. Budapest: Gondolat, 1970

 

Henderson, Archibald. George Bernard Shaw: man of the century. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956. 969 pp (see his ‘Biographer’s breviary.’ Shaw Bulletin 1 x 1956 1-3)

 

Hildeman, Per-Axel. ‘Shaw and the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation.’ Shavian 2 iii 1961 34-37

 

Hogan, Patrick.G., & Joseph O. Baylen. ‘G. Bernard Shaw and W. T. Stead: an unexplored relationship.’ Studies in English Lit, 1500-1900 1 1961 123-47; ‘Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the “International Peace Crusade,” 1898-1899.’ Shaw Review 6 1963 60-61

 

Holroyd, Michael. ‘Appeasement and equality: Bernard Shaw’s Utopia.’ Pp 55-69 in Rosa González & Jacqueline A. Hurtley, eds. Hailing Heaney: lectures for a nineties Nobel. Barcelona: PPU, 1996 (his neglected status as a Nobel-winner from his native land)

 

-----. Bernard Shaw, I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY: Random House, 1988. 487 pp; Bernard Shaw, II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. 1989. 422 pp; Bernard Shaw, III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. 1991. 545 pp; Bernard Shaw, IV: The last laugh: an epilogue: 1950-1991 together with the 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)

 

-----. Bernard Shaw: the one-volume definitive edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1997. 833 pp

 

-----. ‘The quest for George Bernard Shaw: misunderstandings between a scholar and a biographer.’ Times Literary Supplement Dec 28, 2001 12-13; Richard F. Dietrich. ‘GBS and the scholars.’ TLS  Feb 15, 2002 17 (response to Holroyd)

 

-----. ‘Shaw and biography: the unwritten life.’ Essays by Divers Hands 43 1984 90-103

 

-----. Works on paper: the craft of biography and autobiography. Washington, DC: Counterpoint Pr., 2002, 169-83: ‘The making of Bernard Shaw

 

Hugo, Leon H. ‘The quest for Shaw: an interview with Michael Holroyd.’ SHAW 18 1998 101-12

 

Hyde, Mary. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xi-xli in Hyde, ed. Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: a correspondence. New Haven, CT: Ticknor & Fields, 1982

 

Ireland, Denis. ‘Yeats’s ghost.’ Blackwood’s Magazine 292 1962 401-07 (in May 1939 Yeats confronted Shaw who, ‘visibly shaken,’ took him to be a ghost)

 

Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s ‘New Woman’. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1975. 222 pp

 

Jones, A. R. ‘Michael Holroyd.’ Pp 167-79 in Steven Serafin, ed. Twentieth-century British literary biographers. Detroit: Gale, 1995 (Dictionary of literary biography, vol. 155)

 

Kauffmann, Stanley. ‘Ending the journey.’ Salmagundi 84 1989 232-47 (essay-review of Collected Letters, vol. 4)

 

Keogh, Lawrence C. ‘Henderson versus Shaw.’ Shavian 3 ix 1968 10-13

 

King, W. D. ‘An “exquisite” memory: Henry Irving and Bernard Shaw at [Arthur Conan Doyle’s] Waterloo.’ Pp 35-49 in Bert Cardullo, ed. Before his eyes: essays in honor of Stanley Kauffmann. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1986

 

Knightley, Philip, & Colin Simpson. The secret lives of Lawrence of Arabia. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1969, 285-303: ‘The two Shaws’

 

Lagerström, Bertil. I jättens skugga: en bok om Charlotte Shaw och hennes man. Höganäs, Sweden: Wiken, 1983. 391 pp

 

Langner, Lawrence. G.B.S. and the lunatic: reminiscences of the long, lively and affectionate relationship between George Bernard Shaw and the author. NY: Atheneum, 1963. 313 pp (by the director of the Theatre Guild)

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘The Shaws and the Gurlys: a genealogical study.’ SHAW 18 1998 1-31

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s children.’ SHAW 25 2005 22-26 (the ones he ‘appropriated’)

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘An approach toward Shavian autobiography.’ Independent Shavian 35 1997 27-48

 

-----. ‘How G. B. Shaw destroyed his Irish biographer [O’Bolger].’ Columbia Library Columns 21 i 1971 3-11

 

Longstreth, Galen G. ‘Epistolary follies: identity, conversation, and performance in the correspondence of Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 21 2001 27-40

 

Mackenzie, Norman & Jeanne. The time traveller: the life of H. G. Wells. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973, 184-200, 204-20, and see index

 

Mason, Nicholas. ‘Bernard Shaw, journalist: an insider’s view of a master of the art.’ Shavian 9 v 2003 7-12

 

Matthews, Roy T. ‘Bernard Shaw and Vanity Fair.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 102-11

 

Meyers, Jeffrey. Married to genius. NY: Barnes & Noble, 1977, 38-57: ‘Bernard and Charlotte Shaw’

 

Minney, R. J. The bogus image of George Bernard Shaw. London: Frewin, 1969. 223 pp (American edition: Recollections of George Bernard Shaw. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. 211 pp)

 

Moore, Helen M. ‘George Bernard Shaw and the Bishop’s daughter.’ Carnegie Magazine 59 iv 1988 22-30 (prints five letters to the actress Mary Hamilton)

 

Morgan, Margery M. ‘Shaw and the sex reformers.’ SHAW 24 2004 96-111

 

Nethercot, Arthur. The first five lives of Annie Besant. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1960, 213-31: ‘Enter Bernard Shaw, grinning’ (replaces original first entry)

 

-----. ‘A plea for BERNARD Shaw.’ Shaw Review 7 1964 2-9

 

O’Casey, Eileen. Cheerio, Titan: the friendship between George Bernard Shaw and Eileen and Sean O'Casey. New York: Scribner, 1989. 143 pp

 

O’Casey, Sean. Sunset and evening star. NY: Macmillan, 1954, 210-51: ‘Shaw’s corner’ (recollections)

 

O’Donovan, John. Shaw and the charlatan genius: a memoir. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1966. 160 pp (Vandaleur Lee’s role in his life)

 

Pascal, Valerie. The disciple and his devil: Gabriel Pascal, Bernard Shaw. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 319 pp

 

Patch, Blanche. Thirty years with Bernard Shaw. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1951. 316 pp (his secretary)

 

Pearson, Hesketh. Bernard Shaw: his life and personality. NY: Atheneum, 1963 [1943]. 480 pp (first publ. in 1942 as G.B.S.: a full length portrait. NY: Harper, 1942; 1963 edition includes a 1950 supplement: G.B.S.: a postscript)

 

-----. Extraordinary people. London: Heinemann, 1965, 237-60: ‘Superman of the theatre’; see also 165-74

 

-----. ‘My uninvited collaborator, G.B.S.’ Horizon 1 ii 1958 18-21, 134-37 (omissions prompted by Shaw)

 

Peters, Margot. ‘Alfred [Lunt], Lynn [Fontanne], and G.B.S.’ Independent Shavian 41 2003 31-38

 

-----. Shaw and the actresses. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. 461 pp (actually about Shaw and his women)

 

Peters, Sally. Bernard Shaw: the ascent of the Superman. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1996. 328 pp (incorporates ‘A paper courtship: Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry.’ Annals of Scholarship 9 1993 327-40)

 

-----. ‘The septuagenarian versus the siren: Shaw and Molly Tompkins.’ Independent Shavian 43 2005 20-24 (skeptical that a consummation occurred)

 

Pharand, Michel W. ‘Billions of letters.’ Independent Shavian 42 2004 64-73 (his pending edition of Shaw’s business correspondence)

 

Pomata, G. ‘Reply to Pygmalion: the origins of women’s history at the London School of Economics.’ Quaderni Storici 37 2002 505-44 (Charlotte Shaw’s project)

 

Rattray, R. F. ‘Bernard Shaw’s origins.’ Quarterly Review 288 1950 46-61

 

Rodgers, W. R., ed. Irish literary portraits: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, George Moore, J. M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St John Gogarty, F. R. Higgins, AE (George Russell): broadcast conversations with those who knew them. NY: Taplinger, 1973, 116-41: ‘George Bernard Shaw’ (radio broadcast with noteworthies who knew him, among them O’Casey, Ervine, and Johnston)

 

Rosset, B. C. Shaw of Dublin: the formative years. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1964. 388 pp

 

Ryan, Vanessa L. ‘“Considering the alternatives . . .”: Shaw and the death of the intellectual.’ SHAW

27 2007 175-89

 

Schücking, Levin L. Essays über Shakespeare, Pepys, Rossetti, Shaw und anderes. Wiesbaden: Dieterich, 1948, 142-72: ‘Bernard Shaws Liebesbriefe’ (the Shaw-Terry correspondence)

 

Smith, J. Percy. ‘Bernard Shaw’s first critic.’ University of Toronto Quarterly 40 1971 300-315 (based on letters, 1880-94, to Shaw from Elinor Louisa Huddart)

 

Stokes, E. E. ‘William Morris and Bernard Shaw.’ Journal of the William Morris Society 1 Winter 1961 13-18; repr. in California Shavian 4 i 1963 2-5

 

Strait, Daniel H. ‘“Fighting friends”: the Chesterton-Shaw debates.’ SHAW 23 2003 47-57

 

Summers, Ellen. ‘Shaw and Henderson: autobiographer versus biographer.’ Studies in Bibliography 42 1989 284-93 (textual revision)

 

Tahir, Laura. ‘Growth through opposition: the development of a point of view in young Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 29-53 in Michael L. Commons et al., eds. Clinical approaches to adult development. Westport, CT: Ablex, 1996

 

-----. ‘The initial sketch and the growth of a creative network of enterprises in early adulthood: George

Bernard Shaw.’ Journal of Adult Development 3 i 1996 33-41 (treats My Dear Dorothea)

 

Tehan, Arline B. ‘The playwright and his “Mollissima”: in pursuit of love.’ Smithsonian 21 iii 1990 154-68 (Molly Tompkins)

 

Tetauer, Frank. Bernard Shaw: spulutvçrce socialistického dneška. Prague: Prace, 1948. 138 pp (biography up to 1938, including chapters on his literary works)

 

Turner, Justin G. ‘G.B.S. edits himself.’ Coranto 5 i 1967 20-25 (revisions on a manuscript about him)

 

Tyson, Brian F. ‘Shaw’s early journalism in the Pall Mall Gazette.’ SHAW 12 1992 281-86; seven examples of non-book-review pieces follow, 287-96

 

Van Vuuren, Melissa, & Angela Courtney. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 186-205 in Tracy S. Bitonti & Penelope M. Hope, eds. Nobel Prize laureates in literature, part 4: Quasimodo-Yeats. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007

 

Verleger, R., & R. Lencer. ‘Are the “DTI” results positive evidence for George Bernard Shaw’s view?’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 2004 866-67 (Diffusion Tensor Imaging)

 

Wadsworth, Sarah. ‘Revising lives: Bernard Shaw and his biographer.’ Biography 17 1994 339-66 (Shaw’s collaboration with Henderson on his 1932 biography)

 

Walker, John. ‘Bernard Shaw and Don Roberts [Cunninghame Graham].’ Shaw Review 15 1972 94-103

 

Waller, Philip. Writers, readers, and reputations: literary life in Britain 1870-1918. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006, see index (dozens of references in this 1181-page tome)

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Autobiography and authenticity: memoir writing among some late Victorians.’ Pp 1-21 in Sources for reinterpretation: the use of nineteenth-century literary documents; essays in honor of C. L. Cline. Austin: Dept. of English & Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas, 1975

 

-----. ‘Bernard Shaw besieged: political progresses to Oxbridge, 1888-1892.’ SHAW 11 1991 37-46

 

-----. ‘Bernard Shaw, diarist: an introduction.’ Pp 1-19 in Shaw. The diaries, 1885-1897 with early autobiographical notebooks and diaries, and an abortive 1917 diary, volume I. Ed. Weintraub. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1986

 

-----. ‘The indefatigable non-correspondent: G.B.S.’ Texas Quarterly 11 i 1968 113-27 (his printed postcards)

 

-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xx in The playwright and the pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris, a correspondence. Ed. Weintraub. Univ. Park : Penn State UP, 1982

 

-----. Journey to heartbreak: the crucible years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. NY: Weybright & Talley, 1971. 368 pp (publ. in England by Routledge & Kegan Paul as Bernard Shaw 1914-1918: journey to heartbreak)

 

-----. Private Shaw and public Shaw: a dual portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and G.B.S. NY: Braziller, 1963. 302 pp

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s goddess: Lady Colin Campbell.’ SHAW 25 2005 241-56

 

-----. Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996. 255 pp; includes revised versions of many articles, among them:

    5-29: ‘Exasperated admiration: Bernard Shaw on Queen Victoria’ (from Victorian Poetry 25 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 approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982. 254 pp (19 reprinted essays, some revised); 199-210: ‘The playwright and the pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris’ (first publ. as ‘Introduction’ on pp vii-xx in Shaw. The playwright and the pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: a correspondence. Ed. Weintraub. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1982, and as ‘The Irish playwright and the Irish pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris, 1895-1931.’ Pp 105-16 in Heinz Kosok, ed. Studies in Anglo-Irish literature. Bonn: Bouvier, 1982; repr. on pp 178-94 in Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996)

 

-----. ‘Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Virginia and G.B.S.’ SHAW 21 2001 41-62 (early version in Charleston Magazine Autumn / Winter 1997 29-39)

 

Winsten, Stephen. Days with Bernard Shaw. London: Hutchinson, 1948. 214 pp (anecdotal)

 

-----. Jesting apostle: the private life of Bernard Shaw. London: Hutchinson, 1956. 231 pp

 

Woodward, Joe. ‘The Chesterton-Shaw debates.’ Chesterton Review 24 1998 531-41

 

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