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Bernard Shaw

Page 120

by Michael Holroyd

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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