Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin, 1961.
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politics | Clementina Black | Several critics have linked CB
's efforts with the League to the match-girls' strike of July 1888 led by Annie Besant
. Critic Olive Banks
suggests that a speech by CB
to the Fabian Society |
politics | E. Nesbit | EN
and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society
. They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland
was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow... |
politics | Constance Garnett | Both CG
and her husband were members of the Fabian Society
and she briefly served on its Executive Committee. Their political views were moderately socialist, but CG
later became more conservative with age. Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin, 1961. 176 |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, who would later become KBG
, embarked on her first lecture tour as a propagandist for the socialist ideals of the Fabian Society
. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 72 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | |
politics | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society
, a champion of the Labour Party
, and a vocal supporter... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
became a member of the Fabian Society
at its inception. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press, 1971. 163 Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Pease, Edward. The History of the Fabian Society. 2004th ed., E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916. |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was... |
Author summary | Emma Frances Brooke | Emma Frances Brooke
, an often forgotten writer, Fabian
, and feminist, caused a sensation in 1895 when she anonymously published her most famous work, the New Woman novel A Superfluous Woman, a vociferous... |
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... |
Author summary | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Bruce Glasier
was a socialist-feminist writer and activist at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advances her ideas for social reform. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels all in... |
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/. |
Reception | Emma Frances Brooke | After her death, EFB
's writings were largely forgotten, but interest in the topic of the New Woman novelist has revived inquiry into her work. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | Gloria Fromm
calls the text the culminating chapter in the London adventures of its heroine. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 288 |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | After Alpin and Claudia are married, MC
has Alpin set up a Guild of the New Order, probably based on the actual Fellowship of the New Life
(ancestor of the Fabian Society
), only to... |
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