Letters and diaries George Bernard Shaw

strenuous literary life—george bernard shaw @ work : 1904 caricature

shaw prolific correspondent throughout life. letters, edited dan h. laurence, published between 1965 , 1988. shaw once estimated letters occupy twenty volumes; laurence commented that, unedited, fill many more. shaw wrote more quarter of million letters, of ten per cent have survived; 2,653 letters printed in laurence s 4 volumes. among shaw s many regular correspondents childhood friend edward mcnulty; theatrical colleagues (and amitiés amoureuses) mrs patrick campbell , ellen terry; writers including lord alfred douglas, h. g. wells , g. k. chesterton; boxer gene tunney; nun laurentia mclachlan; , art expert sydney cockerell. in 2007 316-page volume consisting entirely of shaw s letters times published.

shaw s diaries 1885–1897, edited weintraub, published in 2 volumes, total of 1,241 pages, in 1986. reviewing them, shaw scholar fred crawford wrote: although primary interest shavians material supplements know shaw s life , work, diaries valuable historical , sociological document of english life @ end of victorian age. after 1897, pressure of other writing led shaw give keeping diary.

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