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...

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

EFB became a member of the Fabian Society at its inception.

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...

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.

Katharine Conway, who would later become KBG , embarked on her first lecture tour as a propagandist for the socialist ideals of the Fabian Society .

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...

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...

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?

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...

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 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...