Power-Seeker
Frank Kermode, 12 October 1989
Bernard Shaw. Vol. II: The Pursuit of Power
by Michael Holroyd.
Chatto, 422 pp., £18, September 1989,0 7011 3350 3 Show More
by Michael Holroyd.
Chatto, 422 pp., £18, September 1989,
“... of all his efforts, and the cause of their relative failure, was what must look, to a Wells or a Frank Harris, and to many a modern eye, a vacuous or at any rate stunted emotional life. But to others, and to himself, it may not have seemed so at the time. It was doubtless in the circumstances unreasonable of Charlotte to be jealous of the actresses and the ... ”