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Bernard Shaw

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Description: To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly four-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. - Jacket flap.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1988]-[1992]
Call number: 608483
Creator: Holroyd, Michael

Bernard Shaw : his life, work and friends

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A recreation of Shaw's extraordinary life and his literary genius, during one of the most dynamic period in literary history. Erivne delves into Shaw's family background, giving considerable mention of his many love affairs, as well a his successful yet unorthodox marriage; as a dramatic critic he discusses each of Shaw's plays and his career as a newspaperman. Ervine also probes into his religious and political convictions; as well as painting vivid pictures of the men and women in Shaw's life. Some material came from Shaw's own diaries as a youth; personal letters; interviews with personal friends and previously unpublished material. 20 illustrations from photographs. -- from Amazon website.

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Shaw, Joseph E

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Approx. 30 items: dozens of copies of news stories and editorials mentioning Joseph E. Shaw, Mayor Frank Shaw's brother and secretary. When his brother was recalled by voters in 1938, Joseph Shaw faced legal problems of his own. Joseph died in 1965 at age 76 (obit in folder).

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Lucien Shaw

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Re: Hannah Shaw's whereabouts during the San Francisco earthquake and fire. 9 items

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John Shaw letter to Ebenezer Breed

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The content recounts John Shaw's dispute over the property of his second wife, Mary Breed Shaw, with his father-in-law Ebenezer Breed.

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Employees - Shaw, David

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Approx. 30 items: large selection of articles by and about David Shaw, a writer who, in the words of LAT co-worker Doug Shuit, "loves the spotlight and fights hard not to let it elude him," some of Shaw's internal LAT memos and correspondence with people at other newspapers, attorneys, and his own editors; in a 1975 response to a critical letter by a Mr. Parsons, Shaw offers that, as a media critic, "I will be criticized no matter what I do," and adds, "I have long since become inured to criticism"; 18-pp. text of Shaw's speech to the Los Angeles Times Management Conference (1/6/1988); etc.

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. 1 note to Wilfred Partington, b. 1888, A.N.S. (1 p.), (1920, Oct. 16), [London (Eng.)]

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Note: Shaw's A.N.S. is written on a typewritten letter from Partington about the special Anniversary Number of Bookman's Journal, Oct. 15, 1920 (1 p.).

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. 1 note to Wilfred Partington, b. 1888, A.N.S. (1 p.), (1920, Oct. 16), [London (Eng.)]