id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6182 George Bernard Shaw - Wikipedia .html text/html 22609 2800 77 S. Gilbert's style.[70][n 14] The public took a different view, and the management of the theatre staged extra matinée performances to meet the demand.[74] The play ran from April to July, toured the provinces and was staged in New York.[73] It earned him £341 in royalties in its first year, a sufficient sum to enable him to give up his salaried post as a music critic.[75] Among the cast of the London production was Florence Farr, with whom Shaw had a romantic relationship between 1890 and 1894, much resented by Jenny Patterson.[76] Candida, which presented a young woman making a conventional romantic choice for unconventional reasons, received a single performance in South Shields in 1895;[77] in 1897 a playlet about Napoleon called The Man of Destiny had a single staging at Croydon.[78] In the 1890s Shaw's plays were better known in print than on the West End stage; his biggest success of the decade was in New York in 1897, when Richard Mansfield's production of the historical melodrama The Devil's Disciple earned the author more than £2,000 in royalties.[3] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6182.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6182.txt