Fabian Society

There seems, nonetheless, to have been some social benefit in this, since her father's friends included members of the Fabian Society .

In London in 1905, GS joined the Fabian Society . (There is no record of her having joined any women's suffrage organisations.)

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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 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...

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

They followed this with The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation, published through the Fabian Society in 1923.

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...

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...