Richard S. Weiner Collection of George Bernard Shaw, 1886-1950.

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Richard S. Weiner Collection of George Bernard Shaw, 1886-1950.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31366657

Includes manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, film, videocassettes, posters, playbills and other materials by and about Shaw, covering all aspects of his varied literary, critical, personal, and political activities. Includes over 900 letters by Shaw; 315 photographs, many relating to productions of Shaw's plays, 80 photographs of Shaw himself and 11 taken by Shaw; and an extensive collection of theater programs for productions of Shaw's plays through 1985. Correspondents include: Charlotte Shaw, Hugh Beaumont, Sean O'Casey, Georgina Musters (Gillmore), Blanche Patch, Harley Granville-Barker, E. Belfort Bax, Maud Churton Braby, Marjorie Deans, St. John Hankin, William Maxwell, Gabriel Pascal, Hesketh Pearson, Lennox Robinson, Clifford Sharp, Bernard V. Shaw, George Herbert Thring, Hugh Vallentin, and Gabriel Wells.

12 cubic feet, 15 boxes.

Colgate University, Everett Needham Case Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7311376

Colgate University, Everett Needham Case Library

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Otto, Curt

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Shaw, Charlotte Payne-Townshend.

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Pascal, Gabriel, 1894-1954

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British film producer and director; made film adaptations of the work of George Bernard Shaw; b. in Hungary. From the description of Gabriel Pascal collection, 1938-1964. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969332 ...

O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

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Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Susan (Archer) Casey, a lower-middle class Protestant family. His father died in 1886. As a child, O'Casey suffered from trachoma, which affected his sight and made it difficult for him to succeed scholastically. He worked periodically throughout his adolescence as a stock boy, a van driver, and railway laborer. During this time, he became interested in Irish working class culture, as well as socialism and labo...

Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964

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English author of biographies, short stories, plays, and travel writing. From the description of Hesketh Pearson Papers, 1789-2001 (bulk 1921-1964). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481627 Biographer of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Letters : concerning Oscar Wilde, [1882]-1945 (bulk 1943-1945). (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316949 Hesketh...

Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928

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British actress. From the description of Dame Ellen Terry correspondence and calling card, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980587 Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000002 Dame Ellen Terry was a 19th century British actress, who for many years performed opposite Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She was made a Dame Grand Cross in 1925. Fro...

Musters, Georgina.

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Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946

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Granville-Barker was an English actor, producer, dramatist, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1877-1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122468875 From the guide to the Papers, 1877-1937., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Harley Granville-Barker began his stage career as an actor in a provincial company, before first appearing in London in 1892. He went on to have a career on the stage, acting with many well known n...

Bax, Ernest Belfort, 1854-1926

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Beaumont, Hugh, 1908-1973

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Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946

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Richard Harris Barham was an English novelist, literary and drama critic, lecturer, and short-story writer. He wrote under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby. From the guide to the Richard Harris Barham collection of papers, 1798?]-1930, 1827?-1845, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) ...

Patch, Blanche, 1878-

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Epithet: secretary to G B Shaw British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x00031e ...