Appendix: The Shaw Associations

Updated June 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

a. The International Shaw Society

b. The Shaw Society of England

c. The Bernard Shaw Society

d. The Dublin Shaw Society.

e. The Shaw Societies in Japan and India

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a. The International Shaw Society

The early days of the ISS were chronicled in Shavings as the Society was being formed. It created a website at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/international_shaw_society/index.html, but this was not updated after 2003 and thus remains in the words of its leading article ‘strictly experimental and illustrative’, being replaced by The International Shaw Society Newsletter and Bulletin Board first at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/iss.htm and now at www.shawsociety.org. This is a fully developed website, partly restricted to members of the iss but with much information and news on open access. It has recently created a Blog at gbs.shawsociety.org. A history of the ISS can now be found at http://www.shawsociety.org/ISS-History-Mission.htm.

The Society’s current executive is

R. F. Dietrich, President @

Don Wilmeth, Vice President

Lagretta Lenker, Treasurer @

Norma Jenckes, Recording Secretary @

Lori Ruse-Dietrich, Membership Secretary @

We will carry news of the activities of the ISS as it comes to hand.

b. The Shaw Society of England

The website of the English Society formerly at http://www.shawsociety.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk has been redesigned and moved to http://www.shawsociety.org.uk. The Shaw Society was founded on 26th July 1941, Bernard Shaw's eighty-fifth birthday. He wanted nothing to do with the idea…

The Society meets in London every month for lectures and play readings, on the final Friday of the month (January to June and September to November) at 6:30 p.m. at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London. Its journal, The Shavian (edited by Ivan Wise), is produced approximately every 9 months, and The Newsletter (edited by Philip Riley) three times a year: New Year, Spring and Autumn.

Coming events: 6-30 for 7pm £2 for members, £3 for guests)

Events in 2008

At Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London

(6-30 for 7pm £2 for members, £4 for guests)

Friday, 30th May Jonathan Fryer, writer and broadcaster talks about GBS and Topolski

27th June Michael Friend, Shaw vs Critics

There is no meeting in July or August

26th September: Veronica Gould George Frederick Watts and Ellen Terry

31st October Richard Digby Day and Toni Kanal

28th November: Jonathan Croall, theatre writer and biographer on Letters of Sybil Thorndyke

Membership costs £15 per annum and for two people at the same address there is a family rate of £22 per annum. For overseas members US$30 or the equivalent. For further details contact Evelyn Ellis, Membership Secretary, The Shaw Society, 1 Buckland Court, 37 Belsize Park, London NW3 4EB +(0)20 7794 7014. Tel/Fax: 020 7794 7014. Email: @

c. The Bernard Shaw Society

This may be reached at P.O. Box 1159, Madison Square Station, New York, N.Y. 10159-1159: the website is http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/shawsociety.html. This website address leads to a new front page, and this has been recently brought up to date, but the link to the ‘current’ number of The Independent Shavian still (2nd June 2008) brings one to volume 43, issued in 2005, and one has to play with the web address to reach other numbers. It is very confusing, and the site is very complicated to navigate. The events page still refers to events of 2006 and 2005.

The current officers and advisory board are Richard Cordell, Edwin Burr Pettet, Richard Nickson (Presidents Emeriti), Rhoda Nathan (President), Daniel Leary (First Vice President), Sally Peters (Second Vice President), Douglas Laurie (Secretary), John Koontz (Treasurer); Jacques Barzun, Eric Bentley, Patrick Berry, Montgomery Davis, R. F. Dietrich, Howard Kissel, Maureen Murphy, Richard Nickson, Margot Peters, Jay R. Tunney, Robert Neff Williams (advisory board).

The Tables of Contents for The Independent Shavian can be reached by clicking here, but the list has not been updated since 2004. The Independent Shavian, edited by Patrick Berry, is sent to all members of the Bernard Shaw Society at no charge as part of their membership dues. To subscribe to the journal or to order a number, click here.

d. The Dublin Shaw Society. 

This maintains no website but may perhaps be contacted through the Hon. Chairman, Brian Mc Grath @. The Society meets (or used to) on the third Wednesday of every month in the United Arts Club, 3 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2.  Membership is €15 p.a., for an individual, €25 for a couple, although this information may be out of date: although a made an Hon. Life member in 2004, we have been unable to make recent contact (or, rather, to receive replies). Perhaps a Dublin reader might investigate?

e. The Shaw Societies in Japan and India

No recent news has been received.

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