Shaw's Settings: Gardens and Libraries

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I should like to thank Elaine Fredericksen, professor emerita at the University of Texas at El Paso, for her encouragement through some difficult times. I shouldalso liketo thank MaggieSmith,chairoftheDepartmentof English at the University of Texas at El Paso, for her guidance. At this same institution, I should also like to thank Brian Yothers, director of English and American Literature, for providing me with a workable class schedule that enabled me to finish this project; Patricia Witherspoon, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, for her professionalism and for creating an environment that appreciates scholarship; and all my colleagues in the Department of English, who have sustained an intellectual and friendly environment that makes research and scholarship easier. I should also like to pay special tribute to the University of Texas at El Paso, which over the past fifty years has fostered, in ways too numerous to mention, my career.· xiii · ...