Christmas
in the Works of
Stanley Weintraub
Bernard Shaw: 1914 - 1918
Journey to Heartbreak
London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1973
p. 81
At Christmas London shops were full, and Christmas trees
were plentiful at Covent Garden. Stocks of food were high, and rationing
not even in the planning stages. French wines still were being shipped
across the Channel, and an advertisement appeared in the daily papers that
"thanks to the iron grip of the British and French Fleets on the High Seas,
Perrier water is being shipped safely via Marseilles as usual…" At the
Duke of York’s, Peter Pan was in its eleventh year…On the streets
people sang and whistled "Sister Susie’s sewing shirts for the soldiers,"….
Index of Weintraub Christmas Exhibit Pages
- Dear Young Friend: The Letters of American Presidents to Children
- Albert: Uncrowned King
- Victoria: An Intimate Biography
- Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill
- Disraeli: A Biography
- Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897, Volume I
- Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897, Volume II
- Shaw: An Autobiography 1856-1898
- The Playwright and the Pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence
- Bernard Shaw 1914-1918: Journey to Heartbreak
- Private Shaw and Public Shaw: a dual portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and G.B.S.
- Lawrence of Arabia: the literary impulse
- Silent Night: The Christmas Truce of 1914
- The Last Great Cause: The Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
- Reggie: A Portrait of Reginald Turner
- Whistler: A Biography
- Beardsley: A Biography
- Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse
- Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography
- Exhibit: Story of Stanley Tree
- Exhibit: Stanley Tree Photograph 1
- Exhibit: Stanley Tree Photograph 2
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