Bernard Shaw, 1898-1918 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1990)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Holroyd
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1898-1918
- Setting: England, with brief excursions to Ireland and the Continent
- Principal Characters: George Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Payne-Townshend Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Stella)
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Power, personal or social, Socialism, Love or romance, Literature, England or English people, World War I, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Letters, Ireland or Irish people, Comedy
- Locales: England
This is the middle volume of a biographical trilogy undertaken by Michael Holroyd to chronicle and analyze the life and career of one of the most productive, elusive, and versatile writers in the history of literature. Holroyd, who distinguished himself previously with prizewinning, magisterial biographies of Lytton Strachey (1968) and Augustus John (1974), has already devoted sixteen years to his Herculean project. The first volume, subtitled The Search for Love, was published in 1988; the third, intriguingly called The Lure of Fantasy, is promised for 1991.
In his...
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