Fabian Society

In London she met Fabian and Marxist socialists. She was a good friend of Eleanor Marx for some time, though their friendship later waned. One source notes that CB 's affinity with Fabianism likely...

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.

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

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...

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

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...

Katharine Conway, who would later become KBG , embarked on her first lecture tour as a propagandist for the socialist ideals of the Fabian Society .

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...

EFB became a member of the Fabian Society at its inception.

Soon after her conversion to socialism in November 1890, Katharine Conway, afterwards KBG , became involved with several socialist organizations. She joined the Bristol Socialist Society and the Clifton and Bristol branches of the Fabian Society

EFB was elected to the executive of the Fabian Society as one of its only two women representatives. She had been defeated for this position the previous year.

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.

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

BW and her husband, Sidney Webb , founded the London School of Economics, to advance socialism and the objects of the Fabian Society .

In addition to her membership of the Women's Labour League, KBG supported educational reform, women's and children's rights, and poor-law reform. In July 1913 she attended the Fabian Society summer conference, which...