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.
Sidney Webb
Standard Name: Webb, Sidney
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | After BW
's own life-writings had begun to appear to considerable acclaim, the joint diary which she and Sidney
kept during their tour in Asia was selected and edited, first by Niraja Gopal Jayal
as... |
| 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. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press. 196, 206 |
| Textual Features | Beatrice Webb | Beginning as a Labour
Government was formed (with Sidney Webb
as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians. |
| Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | BW
's husband
was elevated to a peerage—for the reason that the Labour
government urgently needed a Secretary of State in the House of Lords. Beatrice refused to be known by the title of Lady. Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon. 183-4 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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/. |
| Travel | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband
embarked on a two-month visit to and travel around the Soviet Union. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Sidney Webb
, husband of Beatrice
, suffered a stroke which left him unable to write, though he continued to read. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
(as Mrs. Sidney Webb) published another brief history entitled Women and the Factory Acts, number 67 of the Fabian Tracts. The Oxford University Libraries Online Catalogue of the Bodleian Library
... |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
, in her first literary and scholarly collaboration with her husband Sidney
, published The History of Trade Unionism. 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. |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
jointly published Industrial Democracy, a successor to their history of trade unions in which they aimed to put forward a theory of unionism. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Sidney
and BW
jointly published volume one of their monumental English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act, entitled The Parish and the County. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 247 (5 October 1906): 340 |
| 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/. |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
jointly published A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 969 (12 August 1920): 523 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter
first met Sidney Webb
at the house of her second cousin Margaret Harkness
, who had recommended him as an expert in labour history. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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