George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian 20th American Election England on 1 November 1842

England on 1 November 1842

View of Painter-Stainers' Hall

or the finishing flourish of a City officer

The Liberal Home Secretary

George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian 20th American Election England on 1 November 1842George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian, 1893. The author of such well known works as Pygmalion and Saint Joan, Shaw (1856 1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. A committed socialist, he also wrote numerous pamphlets on social and political issues, many of them published by the Fabian Society. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, fourth series, Cassell and Company Limited (London, Paris and Melbourne, 1893).