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Friends, Associates | Githa Sowerby | There seems, nonetheless, to have been some social benefit in this, since her father's friends included members of the Fabian Society
. Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 32 |
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 |
Textual Features | Githa Sowerby | 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... |
Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | This novel traces the growth of the radical young Fabian
Marcella (Venturist as she is called in the novel) who, as she says, was not brought up at all; I have had to make... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) joined the Fabian Society
at the urging of Sidney Webb
: between them they were to dominate the society for a generation to come. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press. 16 |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband, Sidney Webb
, founded the Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone. 212-13 Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth, editor. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986. Hambledon Press. xx |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband
founded the leftist journal the New Statesman, under the auspices of the Fabian Society
; this month Clifford Sharp
became editor, which he remained until 1930. The first number appeared... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
published her minority report for the War Cabinet
Committee on Women in Industry as a Fabian Society
pamphlet, The Wages of Men and Women: Should they be Equal? “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (7 July 1919): 19 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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/. |
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... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | This pamphlet was a revised and expanded version of two papers she had given, one at a conference of the National Union of Women Workers
at Nottingham in October 1895, and one before the Fabian Society |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | They followed this with The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation, published through the Fabian Society
in 1923. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | AW
's father, Geoffrey Harper
, came from a long line of tenant farmers and musicians in Shropshire. His own father, Edwin Harper
(AW
's grandfather), was a gifted musician and organist at... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
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