Sidney Webb

Standard Name: Webb, Sidney

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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/.
The couple returned to the topic in their joint The Consumers' Co-Operative Movement, 1921.
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
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/.
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
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
politics Eleanor Rathbone
The status and welfare of women in Africa was this group's central though not its only focus. One of the topics it discussed was clitoridectomy, later identified as female genital mutilation, a topic on which...
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 ).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
politics Harriet Shaw Weaver
She was elected to the Marylebone Labour Party committee in 1936. In a programme of self-education about labour and capitalism, she read Marx 's Das Kapital, Sidney and Beatrice Webb 's Soviet Communism: A...
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 London School of Economics, to advance socialism and the objects of the Fabian Society .
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.
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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
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.
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