The Quintessential
G.B.S. : Associates
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Granville Barker
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Lillah
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William Archer
Royal Court Theatre. A Record and Commentary of the Vedrenne-Barker
Season, 1904-1905.
[London: David Allen & Sons, Ltd., 1905]
During the 1904-1905 opening season at the Royal Court Theatre
under the joint management of John Eugene Vedrenne and Harley
Granville Barker, Granville Barker played John Tanner and
Lillah McCarthy Ann Whitefield in Man and Superman. Barker
and McCarthy were husband and wife at the time. Their subsequent
divorce caused Shaw some difficulties since he was closely
associated with both.
Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle for Mrs. Patrick
Campbell who performed it in the first London production at His
Majesty’s Theatre, beginning on April 11, 1914, and in the
first American production in English at the Park Theatre in New
York, beginning on October 12, 1914.
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Ellen
Terry
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Ellen Terry in costume as Portia
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Ellen Terry
Tortoise Shell Snuff Box.
The provenance for this snuff box is recorded in Ellen Terry and
Bernard Shaw, A Correspondence. In a letter written to Shaw a few
days after October 24, 1896, Terry wrote: "My dear Sally Fairchild
will meet you--this evening I imagine. A very sweet girl is Sally (Satty
we call her in America) but it is detestable that she should be
at Radlett on Sunday with you, and then come on Monday (and all the
other days), from you to me. I told her I had a wilful hopeless passion
for you, and had tendered you as a remembrance a snuff-box which you
scorned and refused. Now I have given it to her. She’ll show it
to you."
Gift of
Erik Bradford Stocker
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The Leicester Galleries
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and
Woodcuts Illustrating Col. T. E. Lawrence’s Book "Seven
Pillars of Wisdom." With Prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T. E.
Lawrence.
London: Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1927.
Shaw’s preface to this catalog was reprinted as "‘Revolt
in the Desert’ and its Author" in Now & Then, the
house organ of the publishers Jonathan Cape, Ltd., Spring, 1927, and
as "This Man Lawrence" in World’s Work, New York,
April, 1927.
Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913
London, Bombay, Sidney: Constable and Company Limited, [1922].
Cherry-Gerard was a neighbor of the Shaws’ and a member of
the ill-fated second (Terra Nova) Scott expedition to the
Antarctic. When he was asked to write the official narrative,
G.B.S. and Charlotte Shaw promised their full cooperation.
Surviving proofs show that they both provided editorial advice
throughout the text.
When the manuscript went to the printer, it bore the awkward
title, "Never Again: Scott, Some Penguins, and the Pole,
1910-1913." When Cherry-Garrard referred to the expedition
as being "I suppose … the worst journey in the
world," Shaw replied, "There’s your title."
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George Bernard Shaw
Major Critical Essays (The Quintessence of Ibsenism: The
Perfect Wagnerite: The Sanity of Art)
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1930.
This volume was No. 19 in the limited edition of the
Collected Works of Bernard Shaw, issued by Constable in 33
volumes between 1930 and 1938. This copy was inscribed by Shaw
to Apsley Cherry-Gerard.
Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection
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