Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon, 1986.
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Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | BW's husband was elevated to a peerage—for the reason that the Labour government urgently needed a Secretary of State in the House of Lords. Beatrice refused to be known by the title of Lady. Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon, 1986. 183-4 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Amber Reeves | Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society (founded three... |
Education | Emma Frances Brooke | The school, which was founded this year by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw, focused on the study of inequalities and poverty issues with the aim of improving... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Sidney Webb, husband of Beatrice, suffered a stroke which left him unable to write, though he continued to read. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter first met Sidney Webb at the house of her second cousin Margaret Harkness, who had recommended him as an expert in labour history. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter married Sidney Webb, Fabian socialist and civil servant, and, later, London County Councillor and Labour MP. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press, 1984. 85 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | While lecturing at the Zetetical Society, AK may have met Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006. 91 |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw (with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Eleanor Marx,... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society, she interacted with Beatrice and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Shortly after the wedding, Julia became the charge of Alys Russell, a suffrage and temperance activist who was also the aunt of Ray (Costelloe) Strachey, sister of writer Logan Pearsall Smith and Mary Berenson |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | Sylvia Pankhurst enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice and Sidney Webb, and G. B. Shaw also visited. The school hosted annual... |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Vita Sackville-West, G. B. Shaw, and... |
Friends, Associates | Amber Reeves | AR's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Edith Nesbit and her husband Hubert Bland, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Edward Hulton (editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 71 |