Fabian Society

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politics Katharine Bruce Glasier
In addition to her membership of the Women's Labour League, KBG supported educational reform, women's and children's rights, and poor-law reform.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190:122, 124
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In July 1913 she attended the Fabian Society summer conference, which...
politics Beatrice Webb
BW and her husband founded the leftist journal the New Statesman, under the auspices of the Fabian Society ; this month Clifford Sharp became editor, which he remained until 1930. The first number appeared...
politics May Kendall
Most of her work can be read as reflecting advocacy for the working classes rather than specifically feminist ideals.
Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham, Apr. 2011.
61
But though her focus remains on the legal and political rights of workers, there is...
politics Emma Frances Brooke
As a testament to her popularity, she was then re-elected for the following three consecutive years. Nevertheless, there is evidence that she showed some dissatisfaction with the direction that the Fabian Society was taking, particularly...
politics Vernon Lee
VL attended (as an observer rather than a supporter) meetings of the Fabian Society , the Social Democratic Federation , and the Fellowship of the New Life .
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
131
politics Annie Besant
AB , now a socialist, became executive secretary of Fabian Society (which she had joined that year, nominated for election to membership by George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb ).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
174-5, 177-8
politics Dora Marsden
Following her split with the WSPU , DM considered joining the Women's Freedom League or the Fabian Society , but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse...
politics Annie Besant
Increasingly occupied with Theosophy, AB resigned from the Fabian Society , having resigned from the National Secular Society in February 1890.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
255-6
politics Naomi Mitchison
Believing socialism to be women's best political hope, NM travelled with a Fabian Society expedition to Russia.
Calder, Jenni. The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison. Virago, 1997.
111
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
84
politics Amber Reeves
AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...
politics Annie Besant
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.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
254
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF attended a preliminary meeting of what became the Fabian Society on this date, at her cousin Edward Pease 's flat in London.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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politics Githa Sowerby
In London in 1905, GS joined the Fabian Society . (There is no record of her having joined any women's suffrage organisations.)
Program: Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby. National Theatre, 1994.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
130
Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North, 2009.
43
politics Emmeline Pankhurst
EP defined herself as a Socialist although she did not join the Social Democratic Federation because of the anti-feminist views of its leadership. Along with her husband, she was an early member of the Fabian Society
politics Clementina Black
In London she met Fabian and Marxist socialists. She was a good friend of Eleanor Marx for some time, though their friendship later waned.
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
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One source notes that CB 's affinity with Fabianism likely...

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