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As seen above, many characters in the works of Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf write habitually. Letters fly, writing accoutrements litter the stage and page, and written works are censored, praised, and/or hidden. Interior authors, the most predominant fictional writers of Shaw and Woolf, share many common traits, especially as the proclaimers of their authors’ messages.
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See Misalliance, in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays and their Prefaces. Ed. Dan H. Lawrence (London: Max Reinhardt, 1970–74), 4, 182.
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Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 6 vols. Ed. Nigel Nicolson, with Joanne Trautmann Banks (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975–78), 4, 428. Hereafter quoted as WL followed by volume and page number.
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With apologies to Jane Marcus, who described this scenario with Ethel Smythe driving the tank across the “narrow bridge” and Woolf “as a sniper” to protect her art and to help women to cross to less difficult artistic grounds. “Thinking Back through Our Mothers,” New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), 27.
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Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters, 4 vols. Ed. Dan H. Lawrence (New York: Viking and London: Max Reinhardt, 1985), 4, 556–57.
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See the Shaw biographies by Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw vols 2–3 (New York: Random House, 1989–1991) and A.M. Gibbs, Bernard Shaw: A Life (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005).
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For a much more complete study of Woolf’s activism, see Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist by Clara Jones (Edinburg University Press, 2016).
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Tallent Lenker, L. (2024). Conclusion. In: Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49604-2_9
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