Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Employer | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, made her debut as a lecturer for the Fabian Society
at Nelson in Lancashire. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 71 |
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 | 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 |
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. 131 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Lytton | After the Home Secretary assured the Fabian Society
through the columns of the Times that CL
had been released from prison because of her delicate health, not her class, replies appeared both from her and... |
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 | 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. 111 Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora. 84 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
bore her second son and third child, who was named Fabian after the recently founded Fabian Society
; he remained the youngest of her own children. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 62 |
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 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. 334 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | In 1886, the year of EN
's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson
became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
conducted a flirtation and probably a brief affair with Shaw
, whom she met at the Fabian Society
around 1885. In his words she became passionately attached to him, though it appears he had... |
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 |
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