Fabian Society

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...

After her death, EFB 's writings were largely forgotten, but interest in the topic of the New Woman novelist has revived inquiry into her work. A posthumously published article by scholar Kay Daniels has made...

The first number of the New Statesman, a left-wing journal founded by themselves under the auspices of the Fabian Society , carried the opening instalment of Beatrice and Sidney Webb 's What is Socialism?

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...

Katharine Bruce Glasier was a socialist-feminist writer and activist at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advances her ideas for social reform. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels all in...

Emma Frances Brooke , an often forgotten writer, Fabian , and feminist, caused a sensation in 1895 when she anonymously published her most famous work, the New Woman novel A Superfluous Woman, a vociferous...

Believing socialism to be women's best political hope, NM travelled with a Fabian Society expedition to Russia.

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

Five years later, AB was lecturing in Ireland as part of the Fabian Society 's campaign, centred in Lancashire, to encourage the establishment of provincial branches.

IOF attended a preliminary meeting of what became the Fabian Society on this date, at her cousin Edward Pease 's flat in London.

In London she met Fabian and Marxist socialists. She was a good friend of Eleanor Marx for some time, though their friendship later waned. One source notes that CB 's affinity with Fabianism likely...

Several critics have linked CB 's efforts with the League to the match-girls' strike of July 1888 led by Annie Besant . Critic Olive Banks suggests that a speech by CB to the Fabian Society

Both CG and her husband were members of the Fabian Society and she briefly served on its Executive Committee. Their political views were moderately socialist, but CG later became more conservative with age.

GBS was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society , a champion of the Labour Party , and a vocal supporter...

VW 's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was...