The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
After leaving Ireland in 1876, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), became a fervent commentator on social, political and religious issues, and at one stage he described himself 'As an Irishman, an irregular artistic person, an anarchist in conduct'. In one play he wrote about Ireland - John Bull's Other Island (1904) - he had Father Keegan, an unfrocked priest, confess that his home was 'a place of torment and penance; a place where the fool flourishes and the good and wise are hated and persecuted...'. A voyage to South Africa in 1932 resulted in his writing the novella displayed, which is illustrated by British artist John Farleigh.