Fabian Society

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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.
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Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
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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.
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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.
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Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 153-68.
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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.
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Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North.
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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 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.
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...
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/.
A posthumously published article by scholar Kay Daniels has made...
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.
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Miriam is now a woman in her early thirties, ready to disentangle herself from various relationships and to leave...

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