Shaw's people
Subtitle: Victoria to Churchill
By: Stanley Weintraub.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Contemporaries; Dramatists, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography; Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Contemporary Great Britain; Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Friends and associates; Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
Description: How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical "General" William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be between Shaw, the passionate socialist, and the Tory Winston Churchill, who seemed to represent everything Shaw should have rejected and despised? In Shaw's People, noted scholar Stanley Weintraub explores the relationships between Shaw and twelve of his contemporaries, including Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, H. L.

Mencken, James Joyce, and Winston Churchill. Weintraub chose these individuals as lenses through which to look at Shaw but also for the ways in which their lives are illuminated through their often paradoxical relationships with Shaw.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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