Literary
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Autograph picture postcard signed with initials to Miss Gillmore,
at “8 Park Village West” saying that “So far I have missed only one of the addresses I gave you - that at Rouen. If you sent anything there, let me know. I slept at Neufchatel instead. The weather is Arctic; we came through two snowstorms yesterday, and the east wind today - a biting icy gale - froze us stiff ...”, with autograph direction on the same side and a black and white picture of the Church of Notre Dame-la-Grande in Poitiers on the verso, 5½” x 3½”, no place but postmarked from France, 4th April
Item Date: 1910
£375
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Background
The correspondent is his secretary Georgina Gillmore, but, confusingly, she went by “Judy”, and she was later Mrs Georgina Musters. This is explained in greater detail in a book called Bernard Shaw’s Sister and Her Friends: A New Angle on G.B.S. (1959):
“Mrs Georgina Musters … as Judy Gillmore, had been Shaw’s first secretary from 1898 to 1912. … [B]oth she and her mother - Mrs Arabella Gillmore - who was Shaw’s aunt, lived with Shaw’s mother at Fitzroy Square, although in separate apartments, from 1898 until 1906, and later at Park Village West from 1906 until 1913.”
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