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In 1934 a letter was dropped into a post box in England; the address on the envelope consisted of the word ‘To’, followed by a sketchy caricature of Shaw, and printed underneath it ‘LONDON or-where-ever-he-happens-to-be-at-the-moment!’ It reached its destination.
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Passages from Shaw’s extensive autobiographical writings have been arranged in a coherent sequence by Stanley Weintraub and published as Shaw: An Autobiography (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969). The first volume covers the years from 1856 to 1898; the second runs from 1899 to 1950. The sections here quoted are from vol. I, pp. 11, 22, and 36.
All quotations from Shaw’s plays in this study are taken from Dan H. Laurence (ed. supervisor), The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw, 7 vols (London: Max Reinhardt, 1970–74).
‘Biographic: G. B. S. (70) on George Bernard Shaw (20)’, in R. J. Kaufmann (ed.), G. B. Shaw: A Collection of Critical Essays, (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965) p. 21.
Maurice Valency, The Cart and the Trumpet (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973) p. 9.
Quoted by R. F. Rattray in Bernard Shaw: A Chronicle (London: Leagrave Press, 1951) p. 44.
Shaw’s diary as quoted in St John Ervine, Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends, (London: Constable, 1956) p. 153.
Letter of 14–15 June 1897, in Dan H. Laurence (ed.) Collected Letters, 1874–1897, (London: Max Reinhardt, 1965) p. 775. Where possible, quotations from Shaw’s letters in this study are drawn from this volume and its successor, Collected Letters, 1898–1910 (1972).
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Ganz, A. (1983). The Life. In: George Bernard Shaw. Macmillan Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17134-7_2
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