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under William Pember Reeves
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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
,... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The status and welfare of women in Africa was this group's central though not its only focus. One of the topics it discussed was clitoridectomy, later identified as female genital mutilation, a topic on which... |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | She was elected to the Marylebone Labour Party committee in 1936. In a programme of self-education about labour and capitalism, she read Marx
's Das Kapital, Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
's Soviet Communism: A... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
jointly published Industrial Democracy, a successor to their history of trade unions in which they aimed to put forward a theory of unionism. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Sidney
and BW
jointly published volume one of their monumental English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act, entitled The Parish and the County. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 247 (5 October 1906): 340 |
politics | Beatrice Webb | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press. 16 |
Publishing | Beatrice Webb | 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? 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/. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
jointly published A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 969 (12 August 1920): 523 |
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. 85 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | Written with Sidney Webb
, BW
's Labor appeared in the New York-published collection Whither Mankind: A Panorama of Western Civilization. Clark, Evans. “Forecasting the Future of Man”. New York Times Book Review, pp. 1, 24 - 5. 1, 24 |
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