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AR and the young Fabian lawyer George Rivers Blanco White were married; she accepted his proposal because she was pregnant by H. G. Wells .

AR 's The Nationalisation of Banking was published for the Fabian Society by Allen and Unwin . It is a slim monograph which followed on her series of articles on banking published in the New Statesman.

Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society (founded three...

AR 's mother, named Magdalen but known as Maud Pember Reeves , was born in Australia. In New Zealand she had been women's editor on a newspaper (edited by her husband), been a strong advocate...

AR 's time at the London School of Economics was ended when she became pregnant as a result of a sexual liaison with H. G. Wells , which had begun while she was at Cambridge...

AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...

It looks at the effects of the emancipation of women, not through the experience of a young girl but through that of a middle-aged married woman whose daughter (a member of the Fabian Society ...

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

It was H. G. Wells who introduced her to the Fabian Society , and their friendship developed into a love-affair.

The action takes place in Edwardian London, a world of Fabian socialism and suffragettes, and the novel was shaped by Richardson's early years in London and her relationship with Benjamin Grad .

Gloria Fromm calls the text the culminating chapter in the London adventures of its heroine. Miriam is now a woman in her early thirties, ready to disentangle herself from various relationships and to leave...

It opens with Olga Graham resigning from a Fabian Society committee because she is going to be married and her fiancé doesn't exactly disapprove—he doesn't understand. Believing in him, she believes it would be more...

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...

This pamphlet had originated as a Fabian Society paper given on 18 July 1890.

EJS was also an active lecturer. She addressed a number of groups including the Democratic Club , the Free Thinkers of Walworth , and the Hatcham Liberals . Her support for women's suffrage included delivering...