Kenneth MacKenna collection of material about George Bernard Shaw, 1885-1949

Summary

Creators:

MacKenna, Kenneth

Abstract:

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) started his writing career ca. 1876 and went on to become a playwright, wit, and critic. He won the Nobel Prize for literature (1925) for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty... He was also known as an advocate of social reform. The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, ephemera, and art objects by, or relating to, George Bernard Shaw.

Extent:

1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes) and 1 folders

Language:

Materials are in English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Kenneth MacKenna Collection of Material About George Bernard Shaw (Collection 670). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, ephemera, and art objects by or relating to George Bernard Shaw.

Biographical / historical:

George Bernard Shaw was born July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland; attended Wesleyan Connexional School; he started his writing career ca. 1876 and went on to become a playwright, wit, and critic; known as an advocate of social reform, he co-founded the Fabian Society (1884); vestryman and borough councilor in London in the late 1880s; Nobel Prize for literature, 1925; among his plays are: Heartbreak house (1920), Man and superman (1905), Back to Methuselah (1922), and Saint Joan (1923); his plays adapted to film include Pygmalion (1938) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1946); books include The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism (1928) and Everybody's political what's what (1944); he died November 2, 1950.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Mr. Kenneth MacKenna, 1956 and 1959.

Processing information:

Processed by Manuscripts Division staff.

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Physical location:

Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Separated material:

• Back to Methuselah. London: Constable & Company. 1922. Copy signed by roster of actors who appeared in the play. At the end of page Only the author by G. Bernard Shaw (greatly pleased with the Envoy). Catalogued in rare book section.
• Intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism, London 1928. 5 line inscription to Floryan Sobeniowski, dated 13th July, 1928. Yes: this is a first impression. You can tell by page 442. On the fifth line there is a mistake in grammar: the word were should be was. The first correction made, though not the only one, was of this error. Signed. Catalogued in rare book section.
• John Bull's other island. How he lied to her husband. Major Barbara. London 1907. Inscription to Mrs. Emery from G. Bernard Shaw, 13th December 1907. Catalogued in rare book section.
• Mrs. Warren's profession. London, Grant Richards. 1902. 2 line inscription to J.H. Levy, doughty champion of Personal Rights, holograph, signed, 5th June 1902. Catalogued in rare book section.
• Moore, Edris - dedication to in Dramatic Opinions and Essays. Signature of G.B. Shaw. date August 23, 1917.Catalogued in rare book section.
• Press Cuttings: a topical sketch. London. 1909. Inscription Mrs. Emery from yours faithfully, G.Bernard Shaw, November 1909. Catalogued in rare book section.
• What I really wrote about the war. New York, Brentano's [1932]. With lengthy inscription to William Randolph Hearst, dated San Simeon, March 28, 1933. My dear W.R. Nobody will ever know what we two really wrote about the war. Think of the articles we wrote.... think of the truths we might have told... Well, we both got into honorable trouble early in the war and kept in it to the end, etc. Catalogued in rare book section.

Other descriptive data:

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942333473606533

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century.
Authors, Irish -- 19th century.

Names:

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Kenneth MacKenna Collection of Material About George Bernard Shaw (Collection 670). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:

UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US

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