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, 2003, pp. 153-68.
156-7
Its heroine, Honora Kemball, is faced with her father's decision to renounce his wages...
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, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
212
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