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The published biographical material about Shaw falls far short of what will soon be available and at the time of writing we are still awaiting the first comprehensive biography. Even so, I do not think it is premature to interpret some well known facts about Shaw’s childhood and youth, the prc-GBS phase, so as to show the personal origins of his ‘legislation’. We can infer from the ‘best evidence’ available (to use a lawyer’s phrase) why he embraced certain doctrines. For the value, and for that matter the precise nature of a doctrine is not separable from its sources.
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Bernard Shaw, Immaturity, (Constable, Standard Edition, 1931), p. xi. The novel was written, but not published, in 1879 and the preface was added in 1921.
Ibid., p. xxiii.
Ibid., p. xiii.
John O’Donovan, ‘The First Twenty Years’, The Genius of Shaw ed. Michael Holroyd (Hodder & Stoughton, 1979), pp. 16ff.
George Bernard Shaw, London Music in 1888–89 (Constable, 1937), pp. 11f.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid., p. 15.
Hesketh Pearson, Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, (Methuen, 1961), p. 57 (first published by Collins in 1942).
See Colin Wilson, Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (Hutchinson, 1969), p. 127.
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May, K.M. (1985). Lilith’s Champion. In: Ibsen and Shaw. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17805-6_5
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