Fabian Society

A volume of children's verse by GS entitled My Birthday, 1911, includes a poem singled out by Patricia Riley as embodying Sowerby's new Fabian beliefs. Tuesday's Child (a child who, according to the traditional...

After her death, EFB 's writings were largely forgotten, but interest in the topic of the New Woman novelist has revived inquiry into her work. A posthumously published article by scholar Kay Daniels has made...

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?

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...

Katharine Bruce Glasier was a socialist-feminist writer and activist at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advances her ideas for social reform. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels all in...

Emma Frances Brooke , an often forgotten writer, Fabian , and feminist, caused a sensation in 1895 when she anonymously published her most famous work, the New Woman novel A Superfluous Woman, a vociferous...

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.

Most of her work can be read as reflecting advocacy for the working classes rather than specifically feminist ideals. But though her focus remains on the legal and political rights of workers, there is...

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 ).

BW and her husband, Sidney Webb , founded the London School of Economics, to advance socialism and the objects of the Fabian Society .

VL attended (as an observer rather than a supporter) meetings of the Fabian Society , the Social Democratic Federation , and the Fellowship of the New Life .

AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...

Increasingly occupied with Theosophy, AB resigned from the Fabian Society , having resigned from the National Secular Society in February 1890.

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...

Following her split with the WSPU , DM considered joining the Women's Freedom League or the Fabian Society , but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse...