Fabian Society

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politics Virginia Woolf
VW 's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was...
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...
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.
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politics Beatrice Webb
BW and her husband, Sidney Webb , founded the London School of Economics, to advance socialism and the objects of the Fabian Society .
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone.
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Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth, editor. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986. Hambledon Press.
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politics Beatrice Webb
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...
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.
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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/.
Author summary Beatrice Webb
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...
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 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/.
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...
Friends, Associates Githa Sowerby
There seems, nonetheless, to have been some social benefit in this, since her father's friends included members of the Fabian Society .
Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North.
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politics Githa Sowerby
In London in 1905, GS joined the Fabian Society . (There is no record of her having joined any women's suffrage organisations.)
Program: Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby. National Theatre.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
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Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North.
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Textual Features Githa Sowerby
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...
Occupation Edith J. Simcox
EJS was also an active lecturer. She addressed a number of groups including the Democratic Club , the Free Thinkers of Walworth , and the Hatcham Liberals . Her support for women's suffrage included delivering...

Timeline

January 1884: The Fabian Society was founded in London...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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)...

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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.