Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press.
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politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband
formed the Coefficient Club
to discuss Imperial Efficiency at Home and Abroad, and to provide a forum for a centre party. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press. 146 |
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... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
, with her husband
, founded the Fabian Research Department
(ancestor of the Labour Party
's department of the same name), and began chairing its many subcommittees. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press. 196, 206 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | The Woolfs were planning to acquire a printing press as early as 22 February 1915, when Virginia wrote to Margaret Llewelyn Davies
about their excitement over the prospect: there's a chance of damaging the Webb |
Material Conditions of Writing | Beatrice Webb | While Sidney Webb
was MP for Seaham in Durham, BW
produced a series of newsletters, initially distinctly patronizing, for the women of his constituency. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Webb | Even this book, planned and largely written without Sidney Webb
, bears some late impress of his influence. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Her political activities kept AWE
at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay
, Vita Sackville-West
, G. B. Shaw
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Amber Reeves | AR
's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Edith Nesbit
and her husband Hubert Bland
, George Bernard Shaw
and H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | Sylvia Pankhurst
enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, and G. B. Shaw
also visited. The school hosted annual... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Shortly after the wedding, Julia became the charge of Alys Russell
, a suffrage and temperance activist who was also the aunt of Ray (Costelloe) Strachey
, sister of writer Logan Pearsall Smith
and Mary Berenson |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 71 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | While lecturing at the Zetetical Society
, AK
may have met Bernard Shaw
and Sidney Webb
. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 91 |
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