Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sidney Webb
Standard Name: Webb, Sidney
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
politics | Annie Besant | AB
, now a socialist, became executive secretary of Fabian Society
(which she had joined that year, nominated for election to membership by George Bernard Shaw
and Sidney Webb
). Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 174-5, 177-8 |
politics | Annie Besant | AB
led the first strike of match girls, formed their union, and was elected its Secretary in July 1888. They were inspired, in part, by her article on their working conditions, published in The Link... |
politics | Annie Besant | Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
later acknowledged the importance of AB
's efforts to the new Unionism that became widespread after this year. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 212 |
Education | Emma Frances Brooke | The school, which was founded this year by Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Graham Wallas
, and George Bernard Shaw
, focused on the study of inequalities and poverty issues with the aim of improving... |
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 |
Textual Features | Emma Frances Brooke | It discusses in detail the ideas of anarchism which EFB
encountered through her friendship with Charlotte
and Arthur Wilson
. Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 156-7 |
Textual Features | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin
, Herbert Spencer
, Thomas Malthus
, Thomas Huxley
, Francis Galton
, Edward Carpenter
, John A. Hobson
, and Sidney Webb
. She was also inspired... |
Textual Production | Celia Fiennes | The title seems to place the work in a tradition of intrepid Englishwoman abroad, including Emma Roberts
, Matilda Betham-Edwards
, Isabella Bird
, Mabel Sharman Crawford
, and others. Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
consulted... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | After their marriage, KBG
and her husband, John Bruce Glasier
, formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
. They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party |
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 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
issued another political biography, entitled Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
: A Study in Contemporary Biography, undertaken because she felt that the Webbs were not sufficiently valued by the current generation. Shadwell, Arthur. “Mr & Mrs Webb”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1655, p. 702. 702 |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald
. Two years later she... |
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 |
Timeline
January 1884: The Fabian Society was founded in London...
National or international item
January 1884
The Fabian Society
was founded in London to publicize socialist ideas and investigate the application of socialist principles to British conditions.
26 June to 5 July 1899: The International Council of Women sponsored...
Building item
26 June to 5 July 1899
The International Council of Women sponsored the International Congress of Women
, a ten-day conference held at Westminster Town Hall in London. Those attending included Susan B. Anthony
, Sidney Webb
, Josephine Butler
26 May 1905: The Fabian Society set up a committee under...
Building item
26 May 1905
The Fabian Society
set up a committee under Sidney Webb
to investigate the declining birth rate and the level of infant mortality.
1928: Members of the British Federation of University...
Building item
1928
Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates
) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in recent generations.
Late July 1931: In Britain the confusingly-named May committee...
National or international item
Late July 1931
In Britain the confusingly-named May committee responded to escalation both in the international financial crisis and mass unemployment at home, by advising draconian cuts in government expenditure.
Texts
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain. Longmans, Green, 1920.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. Longmans, Green, 1929.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Industrial Democracy. Longmans, Green, 1897.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Methods of Social Study. Longmans, Green, 1932.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?. Longmans, Green, 1935.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. The History of Trade Unionism. Longmans, Green, 1894.
Webb, Beatrice, and Sidney Webb. Visit to New Zealand in 1898. Price Milburn, 1959.