This notable 1911 first edition features three social dramas by the French playwright Eugène Brieux—Maternity, The Three Daughters of M. Dupont, and Damaged Goods—translated into English by Mrs. Bernard Shaw, St. John Hankin, and John Pollock. The volume is most significant for its lengthy and influential 45-page preface by George Bernard Shaw, who championed Brieux as the most important dramatist in Europe following Ibsen for his courageous exploration of domestic and social taboos. This copy is an ex-library volume from the Glasgow Public Libraries, as evidenced by the stamps on the title page and frontispiece. The tan cloth boards show noticeable shelf wear, bumping to the corners, and some fraying at the spine ends, while the interior remains generally intact with light foxing and a tissue-guarded portrait of Brieux that has caused some ghosting on the opposite page.