Sidney Webb

Standard Name: Webb, Sidney

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Beatrice Webb
BW , with her husband , founded the Fabian Research Department (ancestor of the Labour Party 's department of the same name), and began chairing its many subcommittees.
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.
Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press.
196, 206
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
After BW 's own life-writings had begun to appear to considerable acclaim, the joint diary which she and Sidney kept during their tour in Asia was selected and edited, first by Niraja Gopal Jayal as...
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.
183-4
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features Beatrice Webb
Beginning as a Labour Government was formed (with Sidney Webb as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians.
Textual Production H. G. Wells
HGW 's The New Machiavelli was a political roman à clef which includes unfriendly comic sketches of many public figures on the left, including Beatrice and Sidney Webb .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(29 March 1911): 11
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.
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...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
The Woolfs were planning to acquire a printing press as early as 22 February 1915, when Virginia wrote to Margaret Llewelyn Davies about their excitement over the prospect: there's a chance of damaging the Webb

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