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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... |
Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | Soon after AB
met George Bernard Shaw
, possibly as early as 1884, they became close friends, sharing a bond in their activities with the Fabian Society
. Shaw later claimed that some romantic intrigue... |
politics | Annie Besant | Five years later, AB
was lecturing in Ireland as part of the Fabian Society
's campaign, centred in Lancashire, to encourage the establishment of provincial branches. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 254 |
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. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 174-5, 177-8 |
politics | Annie Besant | Increasingly occupied with Theosophy, AB
resigned from the Fabian Society
, having resigned from the National Secular Society
in February 1890. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 255-6 |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
Friends, Associates | L. S. Bevington | LSB
was a friend of many notable anarchist journalists, including Charlotte Wilson Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol. 101 , pp. 131-49. 140 |
politics | Clementina Black | In London she met Fabian and Marxist socialists. She was a good friend of Eleanor Marx
for some time, though their friendship later waned. Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson. 40 |
politics | Clementina Black | Several critics have linked CB
's efforts with the League to the match-girls' strike of July 1888 led by Annie Besant
. Critic Olive Banks
suggests that a speech by CB
to the Fabian Society |
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... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
became a member of the Fabian Society
at its inception. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Pease, Edward. The History of the Fabian Society. E. P. Dutton & Company. |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
was elected to the executive of the Fabian Society
as one of its only two women representatives. She had been defeated for this position the previous year. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 157 |
Health | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
was forced to resign from the executive of the Fabian Society
as a result of a serious illness. Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 157 |
Author summary | Emma Frances Brooke | 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... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | As a testament to her popularity, she was then re-elected for the following three consecutive years. Nevertheless, there is evidence that she showed some dissatisfaction with the direction that the Fabian Society
was taking, particularly... |