Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press, 1984.
34-40
Charles Booth
Standard Name: Booth, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
| Occupation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) assisted social statistician Charles Booth
in his survey of poverty in London. Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press, 1985. 15 |
| Textual Features | Florence Farr | The Green Houses of Japan, a chapter about prostitution, warns that the nervous reader had better skip [this chapter]. Farr, Florence. Modern Woman: Her Intentions. Frank Palmer, 1910. 53 |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) contributed several sections (on the London docks, the tailoring trade, and the Jewish community) to her cousin Charles Booth
's landmark book Life and Labour of the People in London. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | In the two years following this, Beatrice Potter (later BW
) published several disturbing accounts in Nineteenth Century of the conditions of poor working women in the East End of London. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The book is dedicated to ATR
's newly-acquired daughter-in-law Margaret Ritchie
, daughter of philanthropist Charles Booth
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 263 |
| Textual Production | May Kendall | MK
's relationship with Rowntree is described by Diana Maltz
as what Beatrice Potter Webb
had been to Charles Booth
twenty-five years earlier. Maltz, Diana. “Sympathy, Humor, and the Abject Poor in the Work of May Kendall”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 50 , No. 3, ELT Press, 2007, pp. 313-32. 313 |
Timeline
1899: Two-thirds of 12,000 British men examined...
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1899
Two-thirds of 12,000 British men examined for military service were rejected for failing to meet requirements for height (5 feet 3 inches), weight (115 pounds, or over eight stone), or chest measurement.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
203-4
1901: Surveys of the poor conducted in London and...
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1901
Surveys of the poor conducted in London and York by Charles Booth
(in a volume of Life and Labour of the People in London) and Seebohm Rowntree
(in Poverty: a Study of Town Life...
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