Memoranda to Edmund Yates, editor, The World, 1886-1892.

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Memoranda to Edmund Yates, editor, The World, 1886-1892.

The memoranda concern the day-to-day workings of The World magazine all in the hand of Charles Thomas and annotated by editor Edmund Yates. Many notes concern George Bernard Shaw's contributions and one memo contains Shaw's comment pasted in. Other entries concern the contributions of William Archer, Miss Harrison, Sir Douglas Talfour, Sir F. Leighton, and Mr. O.C. Morris.

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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...

Thomas, Charles.

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Yates, Edmund, 1831-1894

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Epithet: of Fairlawn, Tonbridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x0001b8 Yates was an English novelist, and founded THE WORLD, a weekly society newspaper in 1874. From the description of Edmund Yates collection, 1874-1926 (bulk 1876-1894). (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 609870494 Edmund Yates was a Victorian journalist, novelist, lecturer, comic versifier and pla...