For the next four years Shaw made a negligible income from writing, and was subsidised by his mother. In 1881, for the sake of economy, and increasingly as a matter of principle, he became a vegetarian. In the same year he suffered an attack of smallpox; eventually he grew a beard to hide the resultant facial scar. In rapid succession he wrote two more novels: The Irrational Knot (1880) and Love Among the Artists (1881), but neither found a publisher; each was serialised a few years later in the socialist magazine Our Corner.
For the next four years Shaw made a negligible income from writing and was subsidised by his mother In 1881 for the sake of economy and increasingly as a matter of principle he became a vegetarian In the same year he suffered an attack of smallpox; eventually he grew a beard to hide the resultant facial scar In rapid succession he wrote two more novels The Irrational Knot (1880) and Love Among the Artists (1881) but neither found a publisher; each was serialised a few years later in the socialist magazine Our Corner