Fabian Society

EFB also published for the Fabian SocietyA Summary of Six Papers and Discussions upon the Disabilities of Women as Workers, 1909.

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...

EFB became a member of the Fabian Society at its inception.

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.

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...

In London she met Fabian and Marxist socialists. She was a good friend of Eleanor Marx for some time, though their friendship later waned. One source notes that CB 's affinity with Fabianism likely...

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

LSB was a friend of many notable anarchist journalists, including Charlotte Wilson (a leading member of the Fabians and co-founder of the anarchist journal Freedom), Helen and Olivia Rossetti (editors of another anarchist...

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 ).

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

In the course of her life, AB explored many facets of religion and politics. Early in her life she entertained a passionate Christian devotion and was inspired by the idea of sacrifice, even martyrdom. She...

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...

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.

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...