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politics | Clementina Black | 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 |
politics | Constance Garnett | 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. Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin. 176 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | |
politics | George Bernard Shaw | 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... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
became a member of the Fabian Society
at its inception. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Pease, Edward. The History of the Fabian Society. E. P. Dutton & Company. |
politics | E. Nesbit | EN
and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society
. They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland
was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
was elected to the executive of the Fabian Society
as one of its only two women representatives. She had been defeated for this position the previous year. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 157 |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, who would later become KBG
, embarked on her first lecture tour as a propagandist for the socialist ideals of the Fabian Society
. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 72 |
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 | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Soon after her conversion to socialism in November 1890, Katharine Conway, afterwards KBG
, became involved with several socialist organizations. She joined the Bristol Socialist Society
and the Clifton and Bristol branches of the Fabian Society |
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. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 130 Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 43 |
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 | Katharine Bruce Glasier | In addition to her membership of the Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190:122, 124 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. 61 |
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