Henry Salt and His Circle - Stephen Winsten, Bernard Shaw (Preface)

Salt and His Circle

Stephen Winsten, George Bernard Shaw (Preface)

  • Publisher: Hutchinson & Co., London
  • Published: 1951
  • Length: 224
  • Format: Hardback

Summary

According to Bernard Shaw, Winsten as a biographer “is inaccurate as to facts, wrong in his judgements, self-complacent and without humour…”. Never is this more evident in Winsten’s biography of Salt. Despite having borrowed Salt’s papers from Mrs Catherine Catherine Salt, which he never returned, he did not date the letters or events and at times he invents large passages of dialogue.

As a biographer of Henry Salt, it’s quite remarkable that Winsten manages to get Salt’s full name wrong in the first sentence of chapter one.

Content

  • Preface
  • Notes by the Author
  • Introduction
  • Another Henry
  • Henry Goes to Eton
  • Kate Joynes
  • Back to Eton
  • Cottage at Tilford
  • Declassed
  • A Compendium of the Cranks
  • Among the Mountains
  • Life in a Bath Chair
  • More “Isms”
  • Feud with Doctors
  • Shaw Reads Candida
  • Salt Witnesses a Marriage
  • A Tea Party
  • To Millthorpe
  • Two Masters
  • Kate Dies
  • A Journey to Ayot
  • Life is Everywhere
  • Gandhi and Salt
  • “The Shaw”
  • Iolanthe
  • Rumblings
  • The Address
  • Appendix 1 – Salt on Shaw
  • Appendix 2 – The Books of Henry Salt
  • Index

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