Beatrice Webb (1858–1943)
Author of My Apprenticeship
About the Author
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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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Works by Beatrice Webb
The Diary of Beatrice Webb Volume I: "Glitter Around and Darkness Within," 1873-1892 (1822) 26 copies
Diary of Beatrice Webb 1924-1943: Wheel of Life E Webb Vol 4 (The diary of Beatrice Webb) (1658) 14 copies
THE DIARY OF BEATRICE WEBB (4 Volume Set); Vol I: 1873-1892; Vol II: 1892-1905; Vol III: 1905-1924; Vol IV: 1924-1943 (1982) 5 copies
The Manor and the Borough. Part II 3 copies
Socialism and national minimum 2 copies
The Case for the National Curriculum 2 copies
The London Programme 1 copy
A New Reform Bill 1 copy
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 554 copies
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- Canonical name
- Webb, Beatrice
- Other names
- Potter, Martha Beatrice (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1858-01-22
- Date of death
- 1943-04-30
- Burial location
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Standish, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Liphook, Hampshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Liphook, Hampshire, England, UK - Education
- self-educated
- Occupations
- economist
sociologist
socialist
social reformer
labor historian
diarist - Relationships
- Webb, Sidney (husband)
Cripps, Richard Stafford (nephew)
Appiah, Peggy (grand niece)
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (great grand nephew)
Muggeridge, Kitty (niece) - Organizations
- Fabian Society
New Statesman (co-founder)
London School of Economics - Short biography
- 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.
- Disambiguation notice
- 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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