Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor »

J.P. Wearing is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Arizona.

The sixth volume of British playwright Shaw's (1856-1950) correspondence, documents the unlikely close friendship between the Fabian socialist and Nancy Lady Astor, American-born wealthy Conservative Member of Parliament with a mercurial temperament, during the final two and a half decades of his life. Of the 229 pieces here, 135 are published for the first time. Most are from him to her, and most of the rest from her to him; others are from one or the other to someone else but providing information about their friendship. Wearing (English, U. Arizona) identifies people and events in notes at the end of each letter. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR