New York Journal-American 735, 770
New York Post 528
New York Times 229, 449, 528, 540, 582, 613, 622, 660, 697
New Zealand, the Shaws in 666–70
Nichols, Beverley 576
Nichols, Harry 221
Nicolson, (Sir) Harold 736, 740
Nielson-Terry, Phyllis 684
Nietzsche, Friedrich 358, 361, 722
Nightingale, Benedict 683
Nobel, Alfred 314, 315
Nobel Prize for Literature 314, 812
Noguchi, Yonejir 658–9
Nordau, Max: Degeneration 595
Norman, Thyrza 310
North China Herald 652
Northern Figaro 215
Oakley, Herbert 244
O’Bolger, Demetrius 582–4, 700; Shaw to 17
Observer 392, 682, 733
O’Byrne, Brendan 695–6
O’Casey, Eileen 791
O’Casey, Sean 592, 598, 748
Juno and the Paycock 786
The Silver Tassie 598
O’Connell, Eleanor 789
O’Connor, T. P. 133, 135
O’Donovan, John 28
O’Flaherty, V.C. see Shaw: Works
O’Leary, Michael 466
Olivier, Laurence (Lord) 737, 768
Olivier, Sydney (Lord) 103, 158, 162, 166, 172, 229, 253, 407, 686, 778; Shaw to 113
O’Neill, Eugene 598, 775
On the Rocks see Shaw: Works
Orage, A. R. 358
Orpen, (Sir) William 346
Orwell, George 738
Otto, Carl, Shaw to 515
Our Corner 72, 82, 83, 98
Overruled see Shaw: Works
Overy, (Sir) Esmond 625
Paderewski, Ignace 139
Page, T. E. 603
Paine, Tom: The Rights of Man 452
Palestine Post 779
Pall Mall Gazette 42, 48, 81, 116, 119, 120, 131, 156, 164–5, 184, 255, 327, 335, 593
Palmer, Edwin 81
Palmer, Lilli 778–9
Pankhurst, Emmeline 107, 339
Pankhurst, Sylvia 525
Paquito see Beatty, Pakenham
Parks, George 177
Parnell, Charles Stewart 113, 469
Parry, (Sir) Hubert 137
Pascal, Gabriel 61, 711–15, 726, 740–3, 757, 765–7, 768–9, 791
Passion Play see Shaw: Works
Passion Poison and Petrifaction... see Shaw: Works
Patch, Blanche: becomes Shaw’s secretary 492–3; on Shaw 493–6, 665; in Finnegans Wake 600; fobs off pests 708–11; on Pascal 712; with Shaws in wartime Ayot 744–5, 746, 748; at Charlotte’s funeral 751; and Lady Astor 752–3; arrives in Ayot 753; and Mrs Laden 754, 755, has designs on Shaw 752–3, 755, 764; allies with Lady Astor and Mrs Laden against Shaw’s new friends 757, 759, 760; returns to London 756–7; resentful about salary 761–2; allowed use of Shaw’s letters for Thirty Years with G.B.S. 764; on film set with Shaw 766; during Shaw’s last illness 790–1; mentioned 562, 648, 667, 700, 763, 768, 786; Shaw to 586, 735
Patterson, Jane (‘Jenny’): affair with Shaw 92–3, 94–8; quarrels over Annie Besant 100; jealous of Florence Farr 141–3, 148–9; a possible miscarriage 143–4; end of affair 149, 176, 240; and Widowers’ Houses 161, 163; mentioned 61, 129, 422, 572
Payne, Ben Iden 382
Payne-Townshend, Charlotte see Shaw, Charlotte
Payne-Townshend, Mrs Horace 243–4
Peace Conference Hints see Shaw: Works
Pearson, Hesketh 347, 757, 785; Shaw to 264, 536
Bernard Shaw... 573, 619, 699–702, 774
Pearson, Karl, Shaw to 156, 257
Pearson’s (magazine) 580
Pease, Edward 78, 91, 100, 107, 283, 323, 392; Shaw to 321, 323, 400
Pease, Marjorie 332
Péguy, Charles: Jeanne d’Arc 525
Pelican paperbacks 703–4
Penguin Books (publishers) 703, 704, 803
Percy, Esmé 568, 684, 774, 791; Shaw to 813
Perfect Wagnerite, The see Shaw: Works
Pertoldi, Ermina 45, 64
Peters, Margot 179
Peters, Sally 774
Petrie, Sir William Flinders 628
Philanderer, The see Shaw: Works
Phillimore, ‘Lion’ 251, 253, 619
Phillimore, Robert 251
Phonetic Alphabet Association 798, 799
Piccolo della Sera, Il 380
Pickford, Mary 621, 662, 768
Pigott, E. F. Smyth 188–9
Pinero, (Sir) Arthur Wing 158, 191, 192, 384, 388, 415, 675; Shaw to 251, 318, 409, 475
The Benefit of the Doubt 191
The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith 191, 415
The Second Mrs Tanqueray 166, 167, 180, 191, 415
Trelawny of the Wells 391
Pirandello, Luigi 528, 730, 775
Six Characters in Search of an Author 528
Pirow, Oswald 647
Pitman, (Sir) Isaac 58, 803
Pitman, (Sir) James 784, 799, 801–7 passim; Shaw to 797, 801
Pitoëff, George and Ludmilla 530
Playlets of the War see Shaw: Works
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant see Shaw: Works
Plunkett, (Sir) Horace 426, 512, 513, 515; Shaw to 471
Plunkett’s Convention 471–2
Pocock, Commander 485
Poe, Edgar Allan 688
Eureka 688
Poel, William 194, 204, 308, 568
Pollock, Ellen 711, 774
Pound, Ezra 144, 574, 599
Press Cuttings see Shaw: Works
Priestley, J. B. 666, 740, 777
Prokofiev, Sergei 767
Public Opinion 23
Public Trustee 797;
‘Public Trustee v. Day and Others’ 797–802
Pugmire, Dr S. L. 803
Punch 41, 382
Pygmalion see Shaw: Works
Qu Quibai 654
Bernard Shaw in Shanghai 654
Quicherat, Jules: Procdès de Jeanne d’Arc 523, 690
Quincey, Thomas de 179, 364
Quinn, John 347
Quintessence of Ibsenism, The see Shaw: Works
RADA see Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Radek, Karl 621
Rains, Claude 545, 549, 766
Ramanathan, Sir Pannamballam 176
Rangitane RMS 670
Rank, Joseph Arthur (1st Baron) 714, 757, 765, 766, 767
Rankin (blackmailer) 344
Rank Organization 768
Rationalization of Russia, The see Shaw: Works
Rawls, John: A Theory of Justice 671
Read, Kingsley 803, 804
Redford, George A. 189, 380, 381, 382, 383
Reeves, Amber see White, Amber
Reeves, Bernard 369
Reeves, Edith 368, 369
Reeves, Maud Pember 248, 334–5, 394
Reeves, William Pember 248, 328, 396
Rehan, Ada, Shaw to 310
Reinhardt, Max 287, 530, 729, 730
Reith, John (1st Baron), Shaw to 579
Renold, Hans 314
Renton, Tim 806
Reynolds, Paul 449
Rhinegold see Widowers’ Houses under Shaw: Works
Rhondda, Lady 580, 772
Richards, Grant 224–5, 226, 227, 266, 279, 283, 295, 296
Richardson, Dorothy 394
Richardson, (Sir) Ralph 639, 684, 737
Richter, Hans 93, 139, 195, 359
Ricketts, Charles 407, 465, 494, 529–30
Rider, Dan: Adventures with Bernard Shaw 184
Rilke, Rainer Maria 351, 352
Rinder, Max 533, 534
Ringland, Dr John 7
Roberts, Field Marshal (Lord) 382, 446
Robertson, John Mackinnon 90, 98
Robertson, Johnston Forbes see Forbes-Robertson, Johnston
Robins, Elizabeth 177–8, 190, 212, 213; Shaw to 168, 171
Robinson, Joseph, Shaw to 29
Robson, Eleanor 3
12; Shaw to 312, 314, 320
Roche, Raphael 579
Rodin, Auguste 132, 351–3, 354, 355, 359, 782
Burgesses of Calais 690
Rogers, Ginger 765
Rolland, Romain 631
Romer, Lord Justice 802
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 664, 665, 740
Roosevelt, President Theodore 452
Rosa, Carl 38, 40
Rosebery, Lord 155, 283, 321
Rosenberg, Alfred 731
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 344
Rota, Signor (singer) 39
Rothenstein, Albert see Rutherston, Albert
Rothenstein, (Sir) William 267, 346; Shaw to 533
Rowley, Thomas, Shaw to 445
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) 544, 746; Shaw’s bequest to 782, 798, 799, 806–7
Royal Automobile Club 368
Royal Commission on Poor Law 398
Royal Society of British Artists 309
Rubinstein, Arthur 139
Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses 691
Ruskin, John 83, 84, 126, 323, 327
Russell, Alys 248
Russell, Bertrand (3rd Earl) 248, 328, 450, 454, 613; Shaw to 450, 453, 454
Russell, (Sir) Charles, KC 795, 798, 799, 800
Russell, George (A. E.) 302, 512
Rutherston, Albert (nee’ Rothenstein) 433, 529
Sackville-West, Vita 736
St James’s Gazette 120
Saint Joan see Shaw: Works
‘St John, Christopher’ 588
Saito, Admiral Makoto 657
Sala, George Augustus: Lady Chesterfield’s Letters to Her Daughter 44
Salisbury, Lord 105, 230, 322
Salt, Henry 106, 126, 127, 162, 166, 170, 262, 608; Shaw to 264, 291, 632
Salt, Kate 126–7, 162, 166, 256, 259, 262, 478
Salvation Army 314, 316, 320
Salvemini, Gaetano 566
Sampson Low (publishers) 48
Samuel, George, Shaw to 282–3
Samuel, Herbert (Lord) 248; Shaw to 778
Sanderson, T. J. Cobden 85
Sanity of Art, The see Shaw: Works
Sansom, George B. 657, 658
Sansom, Katharine 657
Sarasate, Pablo 121, 139
Sardou, Victorien: Divorçons 362
Madame Sans-Gêne 200, 201, 207
Sargent, John Singer 267, 782
Saturday Review 185, 223, 227; Agate in 492; Beerbohm’s reviews 227, 311, 335–6, 382; Shaw’s reviews and articles 116, 186, 189, 192–3, 194–6, 197, 201–2, 203–7, 208, 213–14, 217, 227–8, 236, 251, 259–60, 270, 339, 358, 361–2, 400–10, 412, 415, 593
Scheu, Andreas 93
Schmoller, Hans 804
Schneider, Eva 478, 479
Schubert, Franz 138–9
Schubert, Lee 517
Scotsman, The 804–5
Scott, C. P. 449
Scott, Clement 177
Scott, Dr Gregory 343
Scott, Kathleen (née Bruce, later Mrs Hilton Young, Lady Kennet) 354, 463, 538; Shaw to 539
Scott, Robert Falcon 463, 537, 538
Scott, (Sir) Walter 23, 205
Scribe and Legouvé: Adrienne Lecouvreur 147, 148
Scrutiny 575
Scully, Frank 584–5
Selznick, David O. 766
Serebryekov, Admiral 171
Shakespeare, William 24, 204–5, 293, 294, 403, 441, 458
Antony and Cleopatra 271
As You Like It 69, 218, 346, 403
Cymbeline 201–2, 716–17
Hamlet 34, 136
Julius Caesar 270–1
King Lear 485, 686, 716
Macbeth 34
The Merchant of Venice 691, 693
Richard II 441
Richard III 205, 206, 207, 716
The Taming of the Shrew 388, 407
Tempest 385, 634, 636, 689
Twelfth Night 218, 441
Two Gentlemen of Verona 310
Shakespeare and Company 598
Shakes versus Shav see Shaw: Works
Shannon, Charles 529
Sharp, Cecil J.: The Country Dance Book 358
Sharp, Clifford 431–3
Sharp, Rosamund (née Bland) 91, 394, 395, 432
Sharpe, Alice (née Lockett) 65–8, 70, 88, 259
Sharpe, William Salisbury 68, 258, 259
Shaw, Bernard (grandfather) 2
Shaw, Cecilia (‘Aunt Sis’) 2
Shaw, Charlotte (née Payne-Townshend): childhood 243–4; hatred for mother 244; love for Axel Munthe 244; meets Shaw 243; ‘a public spirited Irish Lady’ 215; Beatrice Webb on 242–3; love for Shaw blossoms 244–7; makes herself indispensable to Shaw 247–8; her proposal of marriage rejected 248–51; makes herself unavailable to Shaw 251–3, 256–7; studies municipal services in Rome 257–8; returns and nurses Shaw 259; marriage 260–1, 262–3; financial arrangements 261–2; at Pitfold 264–6; arranges Lusitania cruise 266–7; as model for Lady Cicely 273, 276; disappointed at Shaw’s election defeat 285; approves of Trebitsch 286; treatment of Shaw 290–2; their ‘accursed’ holidays 292–3; dislikes Shaw writing to actresses 312; takes Shaw to Ireland 313, 315–16; and Wells 328; encourages Shaw to sit to Lytton 351, and Rodin 351–2; caught up in French ‘revolution’ 353–4; dislikes Epstein’s bust of Shaw 354–5; rents Rectory at Ayot St Lawrence 356; whirls Shaw through France 357; escorts him round Ireland 359; injured in motoring accident 359; and Mrs George in Getting Married 363, 364; brief career as motorist 366; in Algeria, Tunisia and Ireland 367; ‘positively loathes’ Shaw 368; and the Ayot villagers 369; befriends Lena Ashwell 391; to Jamaica with Shaw 406–7; tours Europe 408–9; leaves for Rome alone 412–13, 414; and Erica Cotterill 417, 419; and Shaw’s affair with Stella Campbell 418–19, 425–7, 429, 442–3; influenced by James Porter Mills 427–8; takes Shaw to France 430, 433; joins Mills and wife in America 443
1914–43
in Devon with Shaw 447, 448; and outbreak of war 448; concern for Trebitsch 448; like a ‘fat white Persian cat’ 460; aggravates Beatrice Webb 460–1; with Shaw at Ayot (1917) 461; in Ireland 463, 464; supports Casement 470; loathes Heartbreak House 489; and ‘Bloomsbury’ 489–90; and Blanche Patch 492, 495; engages Fred Day 496; motoring with Shaw 497; meets Langner 509–10; further visits to Ireland 512, 513. 514; finds Jitta’s Atonement ‘brutally realistic’ 516; finds ideas for plays ‘for the Genius’ 341, 523; reads Lawrence’s Seven Pillars 534–5; their subsequent relationship 535–7; and the Shaw-Stella Campbell love letters 545, 546; and Molly Tompkins 547, 550–1, 552–3, 554; gets on better with Beatrice Webb 552; and move to Whitehall Court 562; and Lady Astor 563, 564; Bennett on 565; at Malvern 576; friendship with Elgar 579; on the Riviera 580; carries Shaw off to Geneva 580; disapproves of Frank Harris 581, 582; and Jane Wells’s death 602–4; at Hardy’s funeral 600, 601; with Tunney at Brioni 605; entrusts Shaw to Lady Astor on Russian trip 619, 620, 629; amused at Shaw’s ‘Little Talk on America’ 660; on Too True to be Good 634, 639; on S. African trip with Shaw 640, 641, 642; injured in car crash 644, 646; on world cruise (1932–33) 648, 649; in love with China 654, 655; in United States 661–2; worried over Shaw’s Metropolitan Opera House speech 663; returns to Ayot 666; in New Zealand with Shaw 667, 668–9; ‘the most unconventional of persons’ 670; ‘one of the best’ 676; approves of Casson 684; at the opening night of On the Rocks 685; illness 695; and Shaw’s illness 697; uneasy about Pearson 700; her lunch guests 711; enjoys film of Pygmalion 715, and pleased about ‘In Good King Charles’s Golden Days’ 725; in the Second World War 735, 744–6; crippled by arthritis 746–7; relationship with Shaw 747–8; disgusts O’Casey 748; last year 749–50; death 750–1; her will 781–2, 792, 795; Shaw to 51, 54, 420
Shaw, Charlotte Jane (‘Aunt Shah’) 2
Shaw, Elinor Agnes (‘Yuppy’) (sister) 7, 9, 14, 25, 27, 29, 31, 35, 36, 218, 255
Shaw, Frances (née Carr) (grandmother) 2
Shaw, Frances (aunt) 2
Shaw, G
eorge Bernard:
1856–82
ancestry, aunts and uncles 1–4; and father see Shaw, George Carr; and mother see Shaw, Lucinda Elizabeth; and Lee see Lee, George John Vandeleur; birth 7; childhood 7–11, 15–16; rejection of ‘George’ 14, 27; religious education and views 16, 17, 22–3; formal education 19–21, 24; friendship with McNulty 21–2; self-education 22, 23–4, 25, 49; and Shelley 23; musical training 25, 31–2, 49; as office boy 27, 32–3; and ‘The Calypso Infatuation’ 33; early works 33, 34; theatre- going in Dublin 34–5; leaves Ireland 35–7; ‘unoccupied’ in London 38; ghosts Lee’s Hornet criticisms 38–40; early works (Passion Play, My Dear Dorothea, Immaturity – see Works) 43–6; ‘conquered’ by Ellen Terry 196; corresponds with Elinor Huddart 64; with Edison Telephone Company 47–8; re-enters literary world 48; writes The Irrational Knot 49 (see Works); joins societies 75; meets Webb (q.v.) 101; further self-education at the British Museum 51, 54, 58–9; becomes vegetarian 51–3; starts Love Among the Artists 54 (see Works); gets smallpox 54–6; physical appearance 56–7; teaches himself shorthand 58; ‘a complete outsider’ 59–60; early friendships 60–62, 63; relations with women 63–5
1882–9
affair with Alice Lockett 65–8; influenced by Henry George 76; writes Cashel Byron’s Profession 68 (see Works); takes up boxing 62–3; writes An Unsocial Socialist 69 (see Works); novels published 72–3; political interests 72, 74–7; meets William Archer (q.v.) 79; joins Fabian Society (q.v.) 78; meets Annie Besant (q.v.) 98–9; elected to Fabian executive 101; ‘slips into paid journalism’ 79; contributes to Pall Mall Gazette (q.v.) 116–21; attends Hampstead Historic Society 104; contributes to Our Corner 82; and Jaegerism 93–4, 95; begins affair with Jenny Patterson (q.v.) 93; infiltration of Avelings, 89–91, and Blands 91–2; becomes art critic of The World (q.v.) 82; and Grace Black 88–9; writes ‘Don Giovanni Explains’ 87; delivers 66 public lectures 110–12; moves to Fitzroy Square 109; in ‘Bloody Sunday’ (1887) demonstrations 105–6; as music critic (‘Corno di Bassetto’) for The Star (q.v.) 121, 124, 131–5; drives himself too hard 122–3; and horrors of Surrey 123–4; first trip abroad 124; sees Janet Achurch (q.v.) for first time 145–6; works on The Cassone 157–8; and Grace Gilchrist 124–5; ‘rather in love’ 125–6; Sunday husbandship at Salts 126–7; with May Morris (q.v.) 127–31; as editor of Fabian Essays in Socialism (q.v.) 107
1890–8
as music critic (‘G.B.S.’) for The World 135, 136–40; attempts holiday with Webb 124; meets Florence Farr (q.v.) 140–1; and Beatrice Webb (q.v.) 152; and Grein’s ‘Independent Theatre’ 158–9; sits to Bertha Newcombe and their relationship 239–42; and staging of Widowers’ Houses 159–60 (see Works); brings out The Quintessence of lbsenism 113 (see Works); and Fabian strategy 154–5; writes The Philanderer 162–3, and Mrs Warren’s Profession 164 (see Works); begins Arms and the Man 168 (see Works); turns to Elizabeth Robins 177–8; and London School of Economics 229–30; begins Candida 178 (see Works); agrees to write for Saturday Review (q.v.) 184–6; his appearance 185; starts war against censorship 188–90; meets Wells 327–8; writes Man of Destiny for Ellen Terry (q.v.) 196; antagonism towards Irving (q.v.) 199ff.; lack of success with You Never Can Tell 192 (see Works); takes up bicycling 152–3; further involvement with Janet Achurch 211–16; first sees Lillah McCarthy (q.v.) 339; meets Charlotte Payne-Townshend 243; and subsequent ‘courtship’ see under Shaw, Charlotte; writes The Devil’s Disciple 221 (see Works); sits for portrait 221; accepts Grant Richards as publisher 224–5; elected member of St Pancras Vestry Committee 224, 231–8; works on Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant 225–7 (see Works); joins Society of Authors (q.v.) 376; ‘a fearful wreck’ over Charlotte’s absence 256–7; foot injury and operation 258–60; and marriage to Charlotte 261–3
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