SHAW GEORGE BERNARD Photograph Inscribed and Signed G Bernar

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PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY SHAW AT FABIAN SUMMER SCHOOL SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Photograph Inscribed and Signed, "G Bernard Shaw," full-length portrait by Shaw, showing his friend Leonard Hall in a chair holding a pipe in his mouth. The inscription, "I took this photograph of my old friend Leonard Hall at the Fabian / Summer School at Llanbedr in North Wales twenty years ago or thereabouts," written on the mount below the image. The photograph, 3½x5¼ inches (image), 7¼x8½ inches overall; moderate silvering at all edges, collector's inscription at upper edge verso. Np, 19 January 1929

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William Leonard Hall (1866-1916) was a union leader, socialist activist, and Independent Labour Party member who was likely engaged to deliver a lecture at the Fabian Summer School in North Wales's Llanbedr when Shaw captured him in the present photograph. In the spring of 1907, Shaw began spending summers at a house near Harlech, not far from the school. For years afterwards, the school enjoyed the financial and intellectual support of Shaw and his wife.