√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse... | Philip Ballard | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | George Bernard Shaw | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | John Bull's Other Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Doctor's Dilemma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Devil's Disciple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | You Never Can Tell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Socialism and Superior Brains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | An Unsocial Socialist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Irrational Knot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and deli... | Margaret Cole and Girton contemporaries | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read Shaw, which is wonderful, but I'm sure I don't understand half of it.' | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Complete Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Heartbreak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Caesar and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Dark Lady of the Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | You Never Can Tell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Doctor's Dilemma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs Warren's Profession | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January 1929 (Tuesday)
In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Meth... | Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January 1929.
?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'
| Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | Pen Portraits and Reviews | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ... | John Maynard Keynes | George Bernard Shaw | letter to John Maynard Keynes, 11 December 1935 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899:
'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t... | Frank Vicary | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works ... | Vera Brittain | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | MS note at the end of "The man of destiny": "Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once di... | George Otto Trevelyan | George Bernard Shaw | Plays: pleasant and unpleasant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'The one [book] that I was given was Bernard Shaw. We went into a bookshop and my father said... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Collected Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Bernard Shaw | Doctor's Dilemma, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Charles Evans | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Frederick Edminson, Percy Kaye & Walter Rowntree | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Charles Stansfield | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to a Play-Reading of Bernard Shaw's Candida.' | Members of XII book Club | George Bernard Shaw | Candida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Members of XII Book Club | George Bernard Shaw | St Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Charles Evans | George Bernard Shaw | St Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Francis Pollard | George Bernard Shaw | [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Mary E. Robson | George Bernard Shaw | Preface to John Bull’s Other Island | Print: Book |