How He Lied To Her Husband

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George Bernard Shaw. How He Lied To Her Husband

How He Lied To Her Husband

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The Preface

The Play

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George Bernard Shaw

Published by Good Press, 2020

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Mr. Daly, having weathered the storm, can perhaps shake his soul free of it as he heads for fresh successes with younger authors. But I have certain sensitive places in my soul: I do not like that word "ordure." Apply it to my work, and I can afford to smile, since the world, on the whole, will smile with me. But to apply it to the woman in the street, whose spirit is of one substance with our own and her body no less holy: to look your women folk in the face afterwards and not go out and hang yourself: that is not on the list of pardonable sins.

POSTSCRIPT. Since the above was written news has arrived from America that a leading New York newspaper, which was among the most abusively clamorous for the suppression of Mrs. Warren's Profession, has just been fined heavily for deriving part of its revenue from advertisements of Mrs. Warren's houses.

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