Beatrice Webb (1858–1943)
Autore di My Apprenticeship
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Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Beatrice Webb, nee Beatrice Potter, political writer, Fabian Society and Labour Party activist (1858-1943) Do not confuse her with children's book author Beatrix Potter (1866–1943).
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Opere di Beatrice Webb
The Diary of Beatrice Webb Volume I: "Glitter Around and Darkness Within," 1873-1892 (1822) 26 copie
Diary of Beatrice Webb 1924-1943: Wheel of Life E Webb Vol 4 (The diary of Beatrice Webb) (1658) 14 copie
Opere correlate
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 555 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Webb, Beatrice
- Altri nomi
- Potter, Martha Beatrice (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1858-01-22
- Data di morte
- 1943-04-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Standish, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Liphook, Hampshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Liphook, Hampshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- self-educated
- Attività lavorative
- economist
sociologist
socialist
social reformer
labor historian
diarist - Relazioni
- Webb, Sidney (husband)
Cripps, Richard Stafford (nephew)
Appiah, Peggy (grand niece)
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (great grand nephew)
Muggeridge, Kitty (niece) - Organizzazioni
- Fellow, British Academy (1931)
London School of Economics
New Statesman (co-founder)
Fabian Society - Breve biografia
- Beatrice Potter was born in the village of Standish, Gloucestershire, to the large family of Richard Potter, a wealthy businessman, and his wife Laurencina Heyworth. She educating herself by extensive reading and discussions with her father’s visitors, including the philosopher Herbert Spencer. While staying with distant relatives in a small Lancashire town, she became acquainted with the working class cooperative movement. In 1891, she published her first book, The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain, which later became a classic. In 1892, she married Sidney Webb and the two worked closely together for many years. Both were members of the Labour Party, co-founders of the Fabian Society, and supporters of the Soviet Union. They wrote several books together, including The History of Trade Unionism (1894) and Industrial Democracy (1897). Beatrice's several volumes of autobiographies, beginning with My Apprenticeship (1922), provide important background to the politics of her day. Her diaries, which spanned six decades of her life from 1873 to her death in 1943, include her politically-engaged thoughts and actions during World War I and in the early years of World War II. The diaries were published in four volumes from 1982 to 1985, and in a one-volume abridged edition in 2001.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Beatrice Webb, nee Beatrice Potter, political writer, Fabian Society and Labour Party activist (1858-1943)
Do not confuse her with children's book author Beatrix Potter (1866–1943).
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