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GBS in the 1890S 1. One of the Pieces in Essays in Fabian Socialism Notes INTRODUCTION: G.B.S. IN THE 1890s 1. One of the pieces in Essays in Fabian Socialism, 'The Common Sense of Municipal Trading7, was published in 1904; all the others belong to the 1890s. 2. Saturday Review (London), 26 September 1896. Our Theatres in the Nineties, II, pp. 195-6. 3. Holbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties (Harmondsworth: Pelican (Penguin), 1939, repr. 1950), p. 194. 4. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, ed. Dan H. Laurence (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), p. 42. 5. Star (London), 10 December 1892; an unsigned notice but almost certainly by Walkley. 6. Appendix I: 'The Author to the Dramatic Critics7, Widowers' Houses (London: Henry & Co., 1893), p. 102 passim. 7. Athenaeum (London), 28 April 1894. 8. World (London), 25 April 1894. 9. Speaker (London), 28 April 1894. 10. 5 November 1896. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Reinhardt, 1965), p. 695. 11. 8 November 1896. Ibid., p. 698. 12. Critic (New York), July-August 1898. 13. The New York Times, 3 October 1897. 14. The New York Times Illustrated Magazine, 10 October 1897. 15. 27 January 1900. Bernard Shaw. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Reinhardt, 1972), p. 143. CHAPTER 1 JANUARY-MAY 1901: A NATURAL-BORN MOUNTEBANK 1. The Times (London), 1 January 1901. 2. Kipling's 'Recessional7 marked 1897, the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee; his 'The Young Queen' 1900, the year in which Australia became a Federation. 3. The Times (London), 23 January 1901. Austen's poem continues: Can it be That She who scarce but yesterday upheld The Dome of Empire, so the twain seemed one, Whose goodness shone and radiated round The circle of her still expanding Rule Whose Sceptre was self-sacrifice, whose Throne Only a loftier height from which to scan The purpose of her People, their desires Thoughts, hopes, fears, needs, joys, sorrows, sadnesses ... 276 Notes 277 4. To the editor of the Morning Leader, undated, probably 27 January 1901. Parke's reply 28 January 1901. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 216. 5. Humane Review, I (London), January 1901, pp. 298-315. 6. It has, however, been resuscitated after a lapse of ninety years and appeared in Shaw 10: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, eds Stanley Weintraub and Fred D. Crawford (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989). 7. Three Plays for Puritans was published by Grant Richards in London on 15 January 1901. The American edition (New York and Chicago: H. S. Stone) came out in February. 8. Preface to Three Plays for Puritans, pp. xxi-xxiv. 9. Academy (London), 9 February 1901. 10. Preface to Three Plays for Puritans, pp. xxxv-xxxvi. 11. Daily Mail (London), 7 February 1901. 12. Ibid., 2 April 1901. 13. Candid Friend (London), 11 and 18 May 1901. 14. Shaw Gives Himself Away (London: Gregynog, 1939). 15. Sixteen Self Sketches (London: Constable, 1949). 16. The bibliographies of 1899 and 1900, though not without their quota of entries, indicate a falling off of productivity, particularly regarding the publication of articles and larger works of general interest. 17. A portion of Archer's remarkable letter to Shaw is in Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 356-7. 18. 'Epistle Dedicatory to Arthur Bingham Walkley' (Preface to Man and Superman), p.xxxi. 19. B. Ifor Evans, A Short History of English Literature (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961). p. 126. CHAPTER 2 1901-1902: PATHOLOGICAL EFFUSIONS 1. 4 August 1899. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw. A Correspondence, ed. Christopher St John (London: Reinhardt & Evans, 1949), p. 309. 2. 'The Sanity of Art', Major Critical Essays, p. 284. 3. 2 July 1894. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, p. 448. 4. 14 September 1901. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 237. 5. In his letter to the British Medical Journal (London), 26 October 1901. 6. This letter is the only one of the controversy Shaw saw fit to include, slightly cut, in Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology, and Sham Education. 7. 22 February 1906. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 607. 8. Ibid., p. 606. 9. 11 September 1905. Ibid., p. 558. CHAPTER 3 1903-1904: FABIAN SHAW 1. Edward R. Pease, The History of the Fabian Society (London: Cass, 1918, 3rd edn 1963), p. 284. 2. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, 1892-1905, 'All the Good Things of Life', 278 Notes eds Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (London: Virago and London School of Economics, 1983), p. 267. 3. Quoted by Steve Jones, 'No Further Room for Improvement', Spectator (London), 12 June 1993. 4. Patricia Pugh, Educate, Agitate, Organise: One Hundred Years of Fabian Socialism (London: Methuen, 1984; repr. Methuen University Paperback, 1987), p. 2. 5. Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, The Fabians (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), p. 28. 6. John Palmer, 'Mr Bernard Shaw: An Epitaph', Fortnightly Review (London), XCVII, N.S., Jan.-Jun. 1915. 7. Pease, The History of the Fabian Society, p. 39. 8. 'Does Modern Education Ennoble?', Great Thoughts (London), 7 October 1905. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 339. 9. 'An Educational Confession', The Schoolmistress (London), 17 November 1927. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 355. 10. 'The Educated Working Man', New Standards (London), October 1923. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, pp. 334-5. 11. 'The Educated Working Man', p. 337. 12. 'Does Modern Education Ennoble?' Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 341. 13. Ibid. 14. 'Education and Electioneering', Daily Mail (London), 27 February 1904. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 368. 15. 7 October 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 375. 16. 'The Fabian Society: What it has Done and How it has Done it', Essays in Fabian Socialism, p. 131. 17. See Pease, The History of the Fabian Society, pp. 81-2. 18. 30 June 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 425-6. 19. Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism (London: Heinemann, 1961), p. 95. 20. Clarion (London), 2 February 1906. 21. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 287. 22. Dan H. Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, I (Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 62-3. 23. Pease, The History of the Fabian Society, p. 160. 24. Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie, The Fabians, p. 302. 25. Fabianism and the Fiscal Question (London: Fabian Society, February 1904), p. 6. 26. Ibid., p. 22. 27. Ibid., p. 25. 28. See C. E. Hill, 'Shaw and Local Government', Shaw and Politics, ed. T. F. Evans. Shaw 11: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), pp. 132-4. 29. 25 February 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 408. 30. 12 March 1904. Notes 279 31. 3 March 1904. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, pp. 315-16. 32. St James's Gazette (London), 5 March 1904. 33. 7 March 1904. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 318. 34. New Age (London), 4 April 1908. 35. Marion Barton, in a letter to The New York Times, 19 April 1933. CHAPTER 4 1903-1905: INTERNATIONAL SHAW 1. 12 January 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 300-1. Archer's article, 'The Two Georges' (Morning Leader of 10 January 1903) was in response to George Brandes' 'Bernard Shaw's Teater' (Politikken (Copenhagen) of 29 December 1902). 2. 7 November 1902. Ibid., p. 285. 3. Assigned to 17 February 1903. Ibid., pp. 310-11. 4. 3 May 1903. Ibid., pp. 320-2. 5. Ibid., p. 332. 6. Ibid., p. 335. 7. F. A. Mumby and Ian Norrie, Publishing and Booksellers (London: Cape, 1930, 5th edn 1974), p. 345. 8. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 332. 9. 19 June 1903. Ibid., pp. 332-4. 10. 13 July 1903. Ibid., p. 337. 11. Daily News (London), 22 August 1903. 12. Saturday Review (London), 12 September 1903. 13. 16 January 1903. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 267. 14. 15 September 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 372-3. 15. 21 September 1903. Add. Ms. 50529, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 16. Add. Ms 50542, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 17. Undated. Aylmer Maude, The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years (London: Oxford University Press, 1920), pp. 461-2. 18. Add. Ms. 50528, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 19. 2 September 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 357. 20. Siegfried Trebitsch, Chronicle of a Life, trans. Eithne Wilkens and Ernst Kaiser (London: Heinemann, 1953), pp. 95-6. 21. Ibid., p. 96. 22. Preface to Jitta's Atonement, Translations and Tomfooleries, pp. 3-4. 23. 10 December 1902. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 293. 24. 26 December 1902. Ibid., p. 297. 25. 15 January 1903. Ibid., p. 304. 26. 18 December 1902. Ibid., p. 294. 27. 11 August 1906. Ibid., p. 640. 28. 20 January 1908. Ibid., p. 753. 29. 4 April 1906. Ibid., p. 615. 30. 28 July 1908. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, p. 89. 31. This figure comes from Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 382; Henderson gives $350. George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956), p. 476. Henderson's figure may be a trifle low, even for Daly. 280 Notes 32. Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, p. 476. 33. 4 January 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 395. 34. The New York Times, 9 December 1903. 35. Both Laurence and Henderson give 5 January as the opening date, but newspaper reviews make it clear that the opening was on Monday, 9 January 1905. 36. The New York Times, 10 January 1905. 37. This memorandum is discussed in a later chapter, '1904-1905: Shavian Farragoes'. 38. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 567. 39. The New York Times, 11 October 1905.
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