Shaw, (George) Bernard
Shaw, (George) Bernard ( 1856 – 1950 ),born in Dublin, the youngest child of unhappily married and inattentive parents. In 1876 he moved to London, joining his mother and sister, and began his literary career by ghosting music criticism and writing five unsuccessful novels (including Cashel Byron's Profession, 1886 , and An Unsocial Socialist, 1887 , both first published in Today, in 1885 – 6 and 1884 respectively). During his first nine years in London he calculated that he earned less than £10 by his pen. He wrote music, art, and book criticism for the Dramatic Review ( 1885 – 6 ), Our Corner ( 1885 – 6 ), the Pall Mall Gazette ( 1885 – 8 ), the World ( 1886 – 94 ), and the Star ( 1888 – 90 , as ‘Corno di Bassetto’). His music criticism has been collected inShaw three volumes as Shaw's Music ( 1981 , ed. Dan H....
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