| Date written | Title | Year first performed (plays) | Year of publication |
|---|
| 1878 | The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) | unpublished |
| 1878 | "My Dear Dorothea..." | 1906 |
| 1878 | Passion Play (fragment) | 1971 |
| 1879 | Immaturity (novel) | 1930 |
| 1880 | The Irrational Knot (novel) | serial 1885–7; book 1905 |
| 1881 | Love Among the Artists (novel) | serial 1887–8; book 1900 |
| 1882 | Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) | serial 1885–6; book 1886; rev 1889, 1901 |
| 1883 | An Unsocial Socialist (novel) | serial 1884; book 1887 |
| 1884 | "A Manifesto" (Fabian tract 2)‡ | 1884 |
| 1884 | Un Petit Drame (playlet) | 1959 |
| 1884–92 | Widowers' Houses (play) | 1893 | 1893; rev.
1898 |
| 1885 | "The Miraculous Revenge" (short story) | 1906[n 1] |
| 1885 | To provident landlords and capitalists (Fabian tract 3)‡ | 1885 |
| 1887 | The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)‡ | 1887 |
| 1887–88 | An Unfinished Nove
|