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Sidney Webb
Standard Name: Webb, Sidney
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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
. 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. |
| Author summary | Beatrice Webb | An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society
and of the Labour Party
), BW
wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her... |
| Travel | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband
travelled by way of Canada to Japan, Korea, China, and India. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Webb | Even this book, planned and largely written without Sidney Webb
, bears some late impress of his influence. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband
founded the leftist journal the New Statesman, under the auspices of the Fabian Society
; this month Clifford Sharp
became editor, which he remained until 1930. The first number appeared... |
| 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... |
| 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 Features | Beatrice Webb | Beginning as a Labour
Government was formed (with Sidney Webb
as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians. |
| 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/. |
| Travel | Beatrice Webb | BW
and her husband
embarked on a two-month visit to and travel around the Soviet Union. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Beatrice Webb | While Sidney Webb
was MP for Seaham in Durham, BW
produced a series of newsletters, initially distinctly patronizing, for the women of his constituency. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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/. |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
(as Mrs. Sidney Webb) published another brief history entitled Women and the Factory Acts, number 67 of the Fabian Tracts. The Oxford University Libraries Online Catalogue of the Bodleian Library
... |
Timeline
January 1884: The Fabian Society was founded in London...
National or international item
January 1884
The Fabian Society
was founded in London to publicize socialist ideas and investigate the application of socialist principles to British conditions.
26 June to 5 July 1899: The International Council of Women sponsored...
Building item
26 June to 5 July 1899
The International Council of Women sponsored the International Congress of Women
, a ten-day conference held at Westminster Town Hall in London. Those attending included Susan B. Anthony
, Sidney Webb
, Josephine Butler
26 May 1905: The Fabian Society set up a committee under...
Building item
26 May 1905
The Fabian Society
set up a committee under Sidney Webb
to investigate the declining birth rate and the level of infant mortality.
1928: Members of the British Federation of University...
Building item
1928
Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates
) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in recent generations.
Late July 1931: In Britain the confusingly-named May committee...
National or international item
Late July 1931
In Britain the confusingly-named May committee responded to escalation both in the international financial crisis and mass unemployment at home, by advising draconian cuts in government expenditure.
Texts
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain. Longmans, Green, 1920.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. Longmans, Green, 1929.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Industrial Democracy. Longmans, Green, 1897.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Methods of Social Study. Longmans, Green, 1932.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?. Longmans, Green, 1935.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. The History of Trade Unionism. Longmans, Green, 1894.
Webb, Beatrice, and Sidney Webb. Visit to New Zealand in 1898. Price Milburn, 1959.