Sidney Webb

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 ,...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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

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...

BW and her husband embarked on a two-month visit to and travel around the Soviet Union.

While Sidney Webb was MP for Seaham in Durham, BW produced a series of newsletters, initially distinctly patronizing, for the women of his constituency.

Sidney Webb , husband of Beatrice , suffered a stroke which left him unable to write, though he continued to read.

BW (as Mrs. Sidney Webb) published another brief history entitled Women and the Factory Acts, number 67 of the Fabian Tracts.

BW , in her first literary and scholarly collaboration with her husband Sidney , published The History of Trade Unionism.

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.

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.

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.