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From Frank Swinnerton, Swinnerton: An Autobiography (London: Hutchinson, 1937) pp. 84–5. The following sketch of Shaw in debate by Frank Arthur Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and critic, is taken from contrasted memories of his three ‘platform heroes’ of the Edwardian era. The others were Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) and G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), friends, fellow-Catholics, and both versatile and productive writers who looked back to the Middle Ages with idealising vision.
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Swinnerton, F. (1990). Debate as Entertainment: I. In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_36
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