Publication details of Major Barbara :

Published in 1907

Other literary works include:

Mrs Warren's Profession (1902)
Pygmalion (1913)
Saint Joan (1923)

Born:

26th of July, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland

Early years:

Shaw had a troubled childhood. His father was a drunkard and they lived in poverty. Shaw had two sisters.

Schooling:

Shaw went to Wesleyan Connexional School, then moved to a private school near Dalkey, and then to Dublin's Central Model School ending his formal education at the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School.

Career:

At the age of fifteen he went to work as a junior clerk. In 1876 he went to London, joining his sister and mother, who created career as a music teacher. Shaw began his literary career by writing music and drama criticism and novels including the semi-autographical Immaturity without much success. He joined in 1884 the Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group. He served on its executive committee from 1885 to 1911. As a public speaker Shaw gained a status of one of the most sought-after orators in England. From 1895 to 1898 Shaw became a drama critic for the Saturday Review. These articles were later collected in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932).

Final years:

Shaw lived the end of his life as an international celebrity, travelling the world, continually involved in local international politics. He continued to write thousands of letters and over a dozen more plays. He visited the S.U. at the invitation of Stalin and he went briefly to the U.S. at the invitation of William Randolph Hearst.

Died:

He died on 2nd of November, 1952 in Herfordshire.