Chesterton, G K.: on Shaw 1, 93; on Arms and the Man 172; on The Doctor’s Dilemma 342; at Meudon 353; Shaw’s interest in 372; debates with Shaw 372–5; in fight against censorship 384; ‘hungry for hostilities’ 452–3; a genuine Peter Pan 601; Shaw on his death 674–5; will 794; mentioned 225, 358, 450, 534, 700; Shaw to 1, 16, 546
George Bernard Sham 369, 370–1
Magic 403
Chevalier, Maurice 711
China, the Shaws in 653–5
Chocolate Soldier, The 173, 295, 440
Cholmondeley, Colonel Hugh 316, 317, 359, 409, 414, 534
Cholmondeley, Mary (née Payne-Townshend) 251, 261, 313, 315–16, 317, 358, 359, 367, 380, 409, 414, 419, 464, 534, 555
Christian Commonwealth 373
Churchill, (Sir) Winston: and prison reform 391; supported by Wells in by-election 395; as President of Board of Trade 399; with Shaw 412, 450, 616–17, 710, 772, 777, 789; on Stalin 627; anti-Soviet obsession 632; mentioned 1, 606, 736, 739
Cibber, Colly 716
Clarion, The 325, 336, 358, 452
Clark, Norman, Shaw to 120
Clark, R. & R. (printers) 703
Clemenceau, Georges 482
Clibborn, George 6, 7, 8
Cliveden 537, 563, 564, 567, 745–6, 747
Coates, Albert 550, 553
Cobbett, William: Rural Rides 120
Coburn, Alvin Langdon 353
Cockburn, Claud 564
Cockerell, Douglas 556
Cockerell, (Sir) Sydney 86, 523, 525, 601, 606–7, 608, 609, 674, 792
Cohen, Harriet, Shaw to 550
Cohen, Lester 707
Colbourne, Maurice 723
Cole, G. D. H. 704
Colefax, Lady 477
Collins, Michael 513–14
Collins, Wilkie: The Evil Genius 119
The New Magdalen 211
Collis, John Stewart 695
Colthurst, Cecily 795
Colum, Padraic: Broken Soil 302
Common Sense about the War see Shaw: Works
Conservative Party, British 281, 283, 322
Constable & Co. (publishers) 296, 497, 537, 531, 801
Conway, Moncure 298 Cook, Robert 20
Cook, Robert 20
Cooper, Duff (Viscount Norwich) 740
Cooper, Paul 609
Coplans, Joseph 354
Coquelin, Benoît 195
Corbett, ‘Gentleman Jim’ 295
Corelli, Marie 410
Cornwallis-West, George 421, 427, 428, 439, 442, 443–4, 463
Costello, John 1
Cotta (publishers) 287
Cotterill, Charles Clement 363
Cotterill, Erica 363, 417–18, 419, 489, 757
Coward, (Sir) Noël: Private Lives 406
Cowen, (Sir) Frederick 137
Craig, Edy 196, 214–15, 276, 278, 587, 588, 589; Shaw to 279, 807
Craig, Gordon 196, 302, 529, 587–90
Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw. A Correspondence 588, 589, 590
Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self 589
Crane, Walter 77, 83, 86, 107; Shaw to 282
Criterion, The 575
Crompton, Louis 314, 490
Cusack, Cyril 737
Cushman, Robert 682–3
Cyclist Touring Club 153
Cymbeline Refinished see Shaw: Works
Czinner, Paul 708
Dagens Nyheter 361
Daily Chronicle 145, 227, 446, 453, 459, 461, 690
Daily Citizen 446
Daily Express 29, 444–5, 471, 600, 604, 697
Daily Graphic 358
Daily Herald 622, 791
Daily Mail 209, 216, 357, 366
Daily News 446, 456, 471, 578
Daily Telegraph 177, 349, 365, 517–18, 647, 735, 737, 802
Daily Worker 735, 740
Dalkey Hill, nr Dublin 15–16, 25, 28, 31, 367–8
Daly, Augustin 190
Dana, Henry 621, 632
d’Arcy, Father Martin 556, 557
Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The see Shaw: Works
Darwin, Charles 500, 502
Davidson, J. C. C. 615
Davidson, Jo 354
Davidson, Marjorie 125
Davidson, Thomas 77
Davies, Brian (Public Trustee) 805
Davies, George Llewelyn 437
Davies, Marion 662
Day, Frances, Shaw to 779
Day, Frederick 496–7, 677, 788, 797
Deans, Marjorie 741
Deck, Richard 54, 57
Defoe, Daniel: Serious Reflections 72
Dempsey, Jack 604, 605
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 647, 731
Devil’s Disciple, The see Shaw: Works
Dickens, Charles 24, 43, 205, 265, 659
A Tale of Two Cities 222
Dickens, Ethel 265, 303
Doctor’s Dilemma, The see Shaw: Works
Dodd, Mead & Company 663, 672
Dodson, Alan 802
Dolmetsch, Arnold 194–5
Dominion League 512, 514
Donat, Robert 737
‘Don Giovanni Explains’ see Shaw: Works
Don Juan in Hell see Shaw: Works
Donnelly, Ned 62
Dors, Diana 797
Douglas, (Lord) Alfred 596, 739
‘For Shame, Mr Shaw’ 365
Douglas, David 71
Downing, E. P. 496
Doyle, (Sir) Arthur Conan 178, 281, 470
Dramatic Review 81, 90, 131
Dramatists Club 454
Dreiser, Theodore 631
Drury, Fred 676, 754, 788, 791
Dublin:
Abbey Theatre see Abbey Theatre
Central Model Boys School 20–1, 24
Christian Brothers’ O’Connell School 13
Dolphin’s Barn Mill 7–8
English Scientific and Commercial School 21–2, 27
Hatch Street 17–18, 21, 25, 30, 31
National Gallery see National Gallery of Ireland Shaw on 468, 778
slums 15, 16
Theatre Royal 34
3 (Upper) Synge Street 7, 9, 12, 19, 487
Wesleyan Connexional School 19–20
Duffy, Gavan 470
Dukes, Ashley 737–8
Dukore, Bernard 692
du Maurier, George: Trilby 12, 41, 438
Dunn, David 618
Duranty, Walter 622
Duse, Eleanora 195, 196
Eleanora 195, 196
Eadie, Dennis 350; Shaw to 337
Echo 120
Economist, The 794
Eddy, Mary Baker 681
Edel, Leon 386–7
Edison, Thomas 47
Edison Telephone Company 48, 49, 61
Education Acts (1902, 1903) 322–3
Edward VII, King 311, 392
Edward VIII: as Prince of Wales 172; abdication of 717; as Duke of Windsor 742
Egan, Pierce: Boxiana 62
Einstein, Albert 132, 610, 611–12, 727
Eisenstein, Sergei 662
Battleship Potemkin 624
Elder, Ann M. 414, 461, 493
Elgar, (Sir) Edward 535, 537, 577–9; Shaw to 491
Eliot, George 24, 48, 387
Eliot, T. S. 491, 509, 524, 574
Criterion 575
The Waste Land 490
Ellis, Alexander John 61
Ellis, Henry Havelock 556; Shaw to 112–13
Elphinstone, K. 798
Elvey, Maurice 361
Emery, Edward 141, 144, 174
Empress of Britain, Shaws’ cruise on 648, 649, 651, 653, 654, 655, 657, 661, 662–3, 665–6
Engels, Friedrich 614
English Players’ Company 599
English Spelling Reform Association 61
Entsch (publishers) 287
Epstein, Jacob 354–5
Rock Drill 172, 597
Era, The 207
Ervine, St John 5, 496, 504, 524, 562, 598, 604, 639, 699, 700, 752, 792; Shaw to xv, 36,
371, 394–5, 431, 474, 492, 685, 750
Bernard Shaw... 813
Evans, (Dame) Edith 511, 569, 570, 684, 737; Shaw to 531, 693
Evening News 184, 185
Evening Standard 357, 531
Everybody’s Political What’s What? see Shaw: Works
Fabian Essays in Socialism 107–8, 112, 229
Fabianism and the Empire see Shaw: Works
Fabianism and the Fiscal Question see Shaw: Works
Fabian News 358, 412
Fabian Society (see also Fabian Tracts): origin of title 78; founders and membership 74, 77–8, 91; and Shaw 78, 84, 98, 101; also Annie Besant 99, 100, 106; policy-making under Webb and Shaw 102–4, 105, 106, 108; and success of Fabian Essays 107, 112; and Shaw’s lectures 112–13, 154; Beatrice Webb and 154, 321, 397–9; and ‘permeation’ policy 154, 321, 322, 325; and Independent Labour Party 154, 155; and establishment of London School of Economics 229–30; and Boer War and British foreign policy 273, 281–3; supports Lord Rosebery 283, 321, and Balfour 322, 323; and Shaw’s stage-management of fiscal policy 323–4; and Labour Party 324–7; Wells and 325, 328–35, 392–7, 401; Summer Schools 358, 392, 399, 524, 547–8; resignations from 400–1; and Samuel Butler 501; Shaw disenchanted with 542
Fabian Tracts:
No. 1, Why Are the Many Poor? 77
No. 2, A Manifesto 78
No. 49, A Plan of Campaign for Labor 155
No. 106, The Education Muddle and the Way Out 322–3
No. 107, Socialism for Millionaires 813
No. 116, Fabianism and the Fiscal Question 324
No. 226, The League of Nations 719
Fagan, J. B. 491
Fairchild, Sally 215
Falck, August 360
Fanny’s First Play see Shaw: Works
Farfetched Fables see Shaw: Works
Farleigh, John 672
Farr, Florence (Mrs Edward Emery): early life and marriage 141; affair with Shaw 140–2, 143, 144; and Yeats 144, 145, 147, 148–9, 170, 175; as Blanche in Widowers’ Houses 161; divorce 174; portrayed in The Philanderer 163; and Arms and the Man 108, 170, 174; backed by Annie Horniman 170; a ‘panic-stricken’ performance 171, 174; interest in occultism 174; end of affair with Shaw 174–6; goes to Ceylon 176; mentioned 166, 224, 247, 596; Shaw to 174, 175, 250
Fascinating Foundling, The see Shaw: Works
Faversham, William 467
Fawcett, Millicent 398
Fay, Frank 302
Fay, William 302, 305
Fenton, James 342
Festival of Britain (1951) 794
Feuchtwanger, Leon 729
Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen 511
Fingal, Lady 426
Fisher, Mark 805–6
Fitzmaurice, Major William 811
Fleming, Alexander 343
Foot, Michael 772
Foras Éireann 796
Forbes-Robertson, (Sir) Johnston 208, 271, 272, 274, 416, 549
Ford, Ford Madox 328; Wells to 330
Ford, Henry 315
Forster, E. M. 534
Forsyth, Matthew, Shaw to 691–2
Fortnightly Review 25, 154, 184, 185
Forward (weekly) 740
Foster, W. D.: A History of Medical Bacteriology 343
France, Anatole 631
Franco, General Francisco 718, 721–2, 732
Frank, Jerome N., Shaw to 512
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 440, 444
Fraser, Peter 667
French, Harold 742
French, (Sir) John (later Lord) 466, 513
Freud, Sigmund 581
Psycho-pathology of Everyday Life 704
Frohman, Charles 350, 387–8, 391–2
Froissart, Jean: Chronicles 690–1
Fry, Christopher 683
Furnival, F. J. 204
Gabor, Zsa Zsa 711
Galsworthy, John 336, 338, 347, 384, 534, 534, 547, 600
Joy 349
Justice 388, 391
Gandhi, M. K. (Mahatma) 648–9
Garbo, Greta 765
Garnett, Edward 58
The Breaking Point 378
Geduld, H. M. 233
Geneva see Shaw: Works
George V, King 408, 573, 646, 709
George VI, King 735
George, Henry 76
Progress and Poverty 76
Gerhardie, William 626
Germania 731
Getting Married see Shaw: Works
Gide, André: Retour de I’URSS 633
Gielgud, (Sir) John 684, 737, 765
Gilbert, (Sir) Alfred 344
Gilbert, W. S. 349, 384, 544
Gilchrist, Grace 124–5
Gillmore, Arabella 267
Gillmore, Georgina (‘Judy’) see Musters, Judy
Gissing, George 51
Gladstone, William Ewart 105, 139, 154, 155, 263
Glasgow Herald 207
Glennie, Stuart 106
Glimpse of Reality, The see Shaw: Works
Globe, The 391
Goddard, Madame 39
Godwin, (Edward) William 196, 587
Goebbels, Joseph 731, 732, 775
Goetz, Hermann 138
Taming of the Shrew 139
Goldwyn, Samuel 662, 706, 712, 713
Gonne, Maud 302, 597
Gorki, Maxim 614, 621, 624, 697, 775
Gosse, (Sir) Edmund 601
Gounod, Charles 56, 137
Faust 25
Graduates’ Keepsake & Counsellor see Shaw: Works
Graham, R. B. Cunninghame 106
Granville-Barker, Harley: as Marchbanks in Candida 307; as playwright 308; relationship with Shaw 308–9, 339; on management committee of Stage Society 309–10; directs The Admirable Bashville with Shaw 294; productions at the Court 310, 337, 338–9; sees need for national repertory theatre 310, 347–8, 392; as Cusins in Major Barbara 316, 318; as Tanner in Man and Superman 340; marries Liliah McCarthy 340, 345; in partnership with Vedrenne 347–50; with Shaw in a balloon 355; in fight against censorship 384; produces for Frohman 391–2; on motoring tour with Shaw 413; at Shaw’s mother’s funeral 423; production of Androcles 430, 433–4; nearly shot in Torquay 450; on Shaw’s unpopularity 452; divorce and second marriage 474–8; end of friendship with Shaw 476, 534, 701; death 478; mentioned 327, 351. 393, 417, 427, 533; Shaw to 307, 354, 359, 360, 367, 368, 407, 416, 751
The Exemplary Theatre 477
His Majesty 567, 571, 573
The Madras House 350, 388, 391, 392
The Marrying of Ann Leete 308
A National Theatre: Scheme and Estimates 347
‘The Theatre: the Next Phase’ 392
Waste 348, 349, 378
Great Catherine see Shaw: Works
Green, Alice 470, 471
Gregory, (Lady) Augusta 302, 307, 359, 367, 379, 380, 417, 465, 468, 473, 526, 534, 597; Shaw to 368, 381, 465–6, 669
The Workhouse Ward 380
Gregory, Robert 473
Grein, J. T. 158–9, 163–4, 168, 212, 335, 365
Grene, Nicholas 444
Grenfell, Joyce 746
Grey, Sir Edward 324, 328, 450, 481
Grey, Piers 652
Gronland, Lawrence: The Cooperative Commonwealth 79
Grundy, Sydney: Mamma 195
Slaves of the Ring 186, 405–6
Guardian 574, 693
Guinness, (Sir) Alec 741
Gurly, Kate 254
Gurly, Walter Bagnall (Shaw’s grandfather) 4, 6
Gurly, Walter John (Shaw’s uncle) 16–17, 23, 27, 55–6, 254, 468, 810–11
Gurney, Edmund 443
Habgood, Edwin 61
Haig, Field-Marshal Douglas (Lord) 461, 463
Haig, John: acid bath murders 756
Haldane, J. B. S.: The Inequality of Man 704
Haldane, R. B. 280, 324, 328
Halifax, Lord 565, 736
Halkett, Rhoda, Shaw to 38
Hall, Radclyffe 581
Hallé, (Sir) Charles 139
; Hallström, Per 530
Hamburger Tageblatt 689
Hamilton, Mary, Shaw to 544
Hamon, Augustin 289–90, 440, 530, 534; Shaw to 289, 296
Hamon, Henriette 289, 530, 534
Hampstead Historic Society 104
Hankin, St John 347, 364
Hankinson, Mary (‘Hanky’) 358, 524
Hardie, James Keir 107, 154, 281, 283, 324, 325, 332,333, 412, 452, 459, 667, 740
Harding, Mrs (villager) 678
Hardwicke, (Sir) Cedric 511, 569, 639, 684
Hardy, Florence 535, 600, 601
Hardy, Thomas 158, 178, 298, 387, 477, 535; funeral 600–1; will 794
Hare, John 195
Harman, (Sir) Justice 798, 799, 800–1
Harpers 583
Harris, Augustus, Shaw to 133–4
Harris, Frank 61, 184–5, 227, 394, 580–2, 584–5, 700; Shaw to 17, 33, 92, 143, 371, 580
‘Contemporary Portrait’ of Shaw 581, 583
My Life and Loves 581
Shaw 584–6, 699, 702
Oscar Wilde 596
Harris, Nellie 582, 585
Harrison, Frederick 219–20, 221
Harrison, Rex 741, 796
Hart, Moss 796
Hauptmann, Gerhart 729
Hayward, Pascoe, KC 795
Headlam, Stewart 344, 400
Heard, Gerald: Pain, Sex and Time 749
Hearst, William Randolph 619, 661–2
Heartbreak House see Shaw: Works
Heath, Carl, Shaw to 446
Heath, Nellie 221
Hecht, Max 274
Heinemann, William (publishers) 50
Helburn, Theresa 707
Henderson, Archibald 8, 369–70, 611, 663, 774; Shaw to 74, 102, 702
George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century (1956) 370
Playboy and Prophet (1932) 370, 582, 584, 586, 699, 702
Shaw: His Life and Works (1911) 13, 370, 583, 584
Henley, W. E. 69
Henschel, George 139
Hentschel, Irene 695
Hepburn, Katharine 662, 694, 742
Higgs, Clara 356, 753, 754, 755
Higgs, Henry (‘Harry’) 356, 676, 753–4
Hill, Caroline 19
Hiller, (Dame) Wendy 576, 714, 741, 742
Hindus, Maurice 620
Hirst, (Sir) Wyndham (Public Trustee) 797
Hitler, Adolf 565, 713, 718, 729, 730, 731, 733, 736; Beatrice Webb on 543; Shaw on 564, 565, 626, 647, 732, 736–7, 740, 743, 771; lampooned in Geneva 720, 721, 722–3
Ho Tung, (Sir) Robert 652
Hoatson, Alice 91
Hobhouse, Stephen 457
Hobson, S. G. 325–6, 334
Hoey, Mrs Cashel 47
Hogarth, William 727
Holland, Edward Milner (later Sir) 798, 799–800
Holloway, Stanley 767, 796
Hone, Joseph 598
Honegger, Arthur 767
Hong Kong, the Shaws in 651–3
Hong Kong Telegraph 652
Hopkins, T. Tighe 96
Horne, Richard Hengist 47, 60
Horne, Sophie 61
Bernard Shaw Page 118