Mrs. Patrick Campbell Correspondence and Other Papers

Résumé du livre

The largest part of this collection consists of letters written by Mrs. Patrick Campbell to George Bernard Shaw throughout the forty years of their relationship. Beginning in 1899 with Shaw's first letter and carrying through to the end of Mrs. Patrick's life in 1940, the two shared an early flirtatious relationship and reciprocal inspiration that perhaps most notably gave shape to the role of Eliza in Shaw's Pygmalion. The letters between Shaw and Mrs. Patrick range widely, delving into the subjects of their active careers, family, health, emotions, travel, and their many significant theatrical and society acquaintances and friends. James Barrie, W.B. (William Bulter) Yeats, Dame Ellen Terry, Alfred and Edith Sophy Lyttelton, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero and Sir Henry Irving are mentioned with casual frequency. Politics is a notably absent theme.