Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | This novel traces the growth of the radical young Fabian
Marcella (Venturist as she is called in the novel) who, as she says, was not brought up at all; I have had to make... |
Cultural formation | Amber Reeves | Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society
(founded three... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
Education | Nina Bawden | Later she went to Ilford County High School. In retrospect, she saw herself as lucky to have attended this school: A lot of our teachers were the childless spinsters of the First World War; women... |
Employer | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, made her debut as a lecturer for the Fabian Society
at Nelson in Lancashire. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 71 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
conducted a flirtation and probably a brief affair with Shaw
, whom she met at the Fabian Society
around 1885. In his words she became passionately attached to him, though it appears he had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | AW
's father, Geoffrey Harper
, came from a long line of tenant farmers and musicians in Shropshire. His own father, Edwin Harper
(AW
's grandfather), was a gifted musician and organist at... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
and the young Fabian
lawyer George Rivers Blanco White
were married; she accepted his proposal because she was pregnant by H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 314 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
's mother, named Magdalen but known as Maud Pember Reeves
, was born in Australia. In New Zealand she had been women's editor on a newspaper (edited by her husband), been a strong advocate... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
bore her second son and third child, who was named Fabian after the recently founded Fabian Society
; he remained the youngest of her own children. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 62 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
's time at the |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | In 1886, the year of EN
's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson
became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's cousins Elizabeth Pease Nichol
and Katharine Blackhouse
were among the leaders of the Ladies' National Association
when it campaigned on the national stage for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Another cousin,... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Box | During her time in Welwyn, MB
became a friend of Flora Robson
, for whom celebrity still lay far in the future. She also had a fascinating and instructive meeting with Shaw
when she and... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | It was H. G. Wells who introduced her to the Fabian Society
, Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 38 |