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Lawrence of Arabia: The Literary Impulse
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975

p. 112

....[Lawrence´s] next venture in translation was self-aborted. Cape had offered him...Sturly by Pierre Custor....On Christmas Day, 1923, he…

p. 102

....At Christmas leave-time he [T.E. Lawrence] had the hut to himself, and divided his time between reading T.S. Elliot, correcting proofs, and sampling a holiday assortment of delicacies delivered by Gunter´s from an anonymous donor whom…

Bernard Shaw: 1914 - 1918
Journey to Heartbreak
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973

p. 81

At Christmas London shops were full, and Christmas trees were plentiful at Covent Garden. Stocks of food were high, and rationing not even in the…

The Playwright and the Pirate:
Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris:
A Correspondence

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982

p. 62


3 Washington Square, New York

Dec.23, 1916

My Dear Shaw:

I just want to send a…

Shaw:An Autobiography 1856 - 1898
New York: Weybright and Talley Books, 1969

p. 225

....In my boyhood in the 1860s there were two theatres in Dublin. The Royal, in Hawkins-street, was nobly spacious, lofty, beautifully proportioned, and in…

Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885 - 1897. Volume II
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986

p. 882

[Dec] 21 Go down to Kelmscott by the 13.25 train from Paddington.

....got to Paddington in good time. Miss Allen saw us off.…

Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885 - 1897. Volume I
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986

1887

p. 326

[Dec] 24....Go for a walk with Sidney Web.

Brought Mrs. Besant´s letters down to Fleet St., but she had gone. Called…

Disraeli:A Biography
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993

p. 386

...on December 14, the Prince´s [Prince Albert] life ebbed away....In weeds and widow´s cap....Queen [Victoria] had been hurried off to Osborne, the funeral...at Windsor held without…

Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996

p. 19

...December 1899....the war (South African War) was going badly....For Christmas 1899 the Queen had sought a symbolic present to send to her…

Victoria: An Intimate Biography
New York: Truman Talley Books / E.P.Dutton, 1992

p. 150

…The Court returned to Windsor for Christmas, which was celebrated in the German fashion. Gifts were placed on tables under small Christmas Trees with…