Fabian Society

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Gladys Henrietta Schütze
It opens with Olga Graham resigning from a Fabian Society committee because she is going to be married and her fiancé doesn't exactly disapprove—he doesn't understand. Believing in him, she believes it would be more...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Amber Reeves
It looks at the effects of the emancipation of women, not through the experience of a young girl but through that of a middle-aged married woman whose daughter (a member of the Fabian Society ...
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN read a paper to the new Fabian Society women's group: invited to speak on Motherhood and Bread-Winning, she substituted The Natural Disabilities of Women.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Textual Production George Bernard Shaw
This pamphlet had originated as a Fabian Society paper given on 18 July 1890.
Textual Production Amber Reeves
AR 's The Nationalisation of Banking was published for the Fabian Society by Allen and Unwin . It is a slim monograph which followed on her series of articles on banking published in the New Statesman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB also published for the Fabian SocietyA Summary of Six Papers and Discussions upon the Disabilities of Women as Workers, 1909.
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Textual Production Beatrice Webb
BW published her minority report for the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry as a Fabian Society pamphlet, The Wages of Men and Women: Should they be Equal?
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(7 July 1919): 19
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Textual Production Brigid Brophy
BB issued a crisply opinionated Fabian Society tract entitled Religious Education in State Schools.
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
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Textual Production Margaret Drabble
On 30 June 1988 the Fabian Society issued a pamphlet authored by MD and entitled The Case for Equality.
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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
On her return from Vienna NM delivered the first public speech she had ever done with ease and assurance. Her husband asked her to speak for just ten minutes at a Fabian Society meeting, assuming...
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
This pamphlet was a revised and expanded version of two papers she had given, one at a conference of the National Union of Women Workers at Nottingham in October 1895, and one before the Fabian Society
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
They followed this with The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation, published through the Fabian Society in 1923.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN published for the Fabian Society a volume of political poetry, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, 1883 to 1980.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
337 (25 June 1908): 208
Textual Features Githa Sowerby
A volume of children's verse by GS entitled My Birthday, 1911, includes a poem singled out by Patricia Riley as embodying Sowerby's new Fabian beliefs. Tuesday's Child (a child who, according to the traditional...
Textual Features Mona Caird
After Alpin and Claudia are married, MC has Alpin set up a Guild of the New Order, probably based on the actual Fellowship of the New Life (ancestor of the Fabian Society ), only to...

Timeline

January 1884: The Fabian Society was founded in London...

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January 1884

The Fabian Society was founded in London to publicize socialist ideas and investigate the application of socialist principles to British conditions.

September 1886: A famous meeting of the Fabian Society resolved...

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September 1886

A famous meeting of the Fabian Society resolved that it was desirable for socialists to form a politial party; this was the first germ of the Labour Party .

October 1886: Freedom, a popular anarchist newspaper, was...

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October 1886

Freedom, a popular anarchist newspaper, was founded in London by Charlotte M. Wilson and Peter Kropotkin .

26 May 1905: The Fabian Society set up a committee under...

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26 May 1905

The Fabian Society set up a committee under Sidney Webb to investigate the declining birth rate and the level of infant mortality.

October 1908: Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing...

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October 1908

Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing struggle against gender discrimination when she became the first female professor at any British university or college.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

16 December 1911: The National Insurance Act received Royal...

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16 December 1911

The National Insurance Act received Royal Assent; it introduced maternity benefits (payable to husbands) and covered manual workers from sixteen to seventy employed in certain industries subject to recurrent unemployment.

November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...

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November 1981

Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain ) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party , to win a seat in Parliament : for Crosby, Lancashire.

Texts

Brophy, Brigid. Religious Education in State Schools. Fabian Society, 1967.
Webb, Beatrice. The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal?. Fabian Society, 1919.
Webb, Beatrice. Women and the Factory Acts. Fabian Society, 1896.