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Fabian Society
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amber Reeves | It looks at the effects of the emancipation of women, not through the experience of a young girl but through that of a middle-aged married woman whose daughter (a member of the Fabian Society
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | It opens with Olga Graham resigning from a Fabian Society
committee because she is going to be married and her fiancé doesn't exactly disapprove—he doesn't understand. Believing in him, she believes it would be more... |
Textual Production | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
also published for the Fabian SocietyA Summary of Six Papers and Discussions upon the Disabilities of Women as Workers, 1909. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
published her minority report for the War Cabinet
Committee on Women in Industry as a Fabian Society
pamphlet, The Wages of Men and Women: Should they be Equal? “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (7 July 1919): 19 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | BB
issued a crisply opinionated Fabian Society
tract entitled Religious Education in State Schools. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 155 |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | On her return from Vienna NM
delivered the first public speech she had ever done with ease and assurance. Her husband asked her to speak for just ten minutes at a Fabian Society
meeting, assuming... |
Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | On 30 June 1988 the Fabian Society
issued a pamphlet authored by MD
and entitled The Case for Equality. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | This pamphlet was a revised and expanded version of two papers she had given, one at a conference of the National Union of Women Workers
at Nottingham in October 1895, and one before the Fabian Society |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | EN
published for the Fabian Society
a volume of political poetry, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, 1883 to 1980. 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 337 (25 June 1908): 208 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | They followed this with The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation, published through the Fabian Society
in 1923. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | EN
read a paper to the new Fabian Society
women's group: invited to speak on Motherhood and Bread-Winning, she substituted The Natural Disabilities of Women. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 334 |
Textual Production | George Bernard Shaw | This pamphlet had originated as a Fabian Society
paper given on 18 July 1890. |
Textual Production | Amber Reeves | AR
's The Nationalisation of Banking was published for the Fabian Society
by Allen and Unwin
. It is a slim monograph which followed on her series of articles on banking published in the New Statesman. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. 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. |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | After Alpin and Claudia are married, MC
has Alpin set up a Guild of the New Order, probably based on the actual Fellowship of the New Life
(ancestor of the Fabian Society
), only to... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | Gloria Fromm
calls the text the culminating chapter in the London adventures of its heroine. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 288 |
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.
September 1886: A famous meeting of the Fabian Society resolved...
National or international item
September 1886
A famous meeting of the Fabian Society
resolved that it was desirable for socialists to form a politial party; this was the first germ of the Labour Party
.
October 1886: Freedom, a popular anarchist newspaper, was...
National or international item
October 1886
Freedom, a popular anarchist newspaper, was founded in London by Charlotte M. Wilson
and Peter Kropotkin
.
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.
October 1908: Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing...
Building item
October 1908
Edith Morley
won a battle in her ongoing struggle against gender discrimination when she became the first female professor at any British university or college.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
16 December 1911: The National Insurance Act received Royal...
National or international item
16 December 1911
The National Insurance Act received Royal Assent; it introduced maternity benefits (payable to husbands) and covered manual workers from sixteen to seventy employed in certain industries subject to recurrent unemployment.
November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...
Women writers item
November 1981
Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party
, to win a seat in Parliament
: for Crosby, Lancashire.
Texts
Brophy, Brigid. Religious Education in State Schools. Fabian Society, 1967.
Webb, Beatrice. The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal?. Fabian Society, 1919.
Webb, Beatrice. Women and the Factory Acts. Fabian Society, 1896.