Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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/. |
Author summary | Beatrice Webb | 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... |
Author summary | Katharine Bruce Glasier | 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... |
Author summary | Emma Frances Brooke | 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... |
Publishing | Beatrice Webb | 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? Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Emma Frances Brooke | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | 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... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | Gloria Fromm
calls the text the culminating chapter in the London adventures of its heroine. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 288 |
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