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The Private World of Beatrice Webb
Martin, Kingsley | May 26, 1956 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Beatrice Webb's Diaries 1924-1932," edited by Margaret I. Cole. Beatrice Webb was an extraordinary woman. Among English women who have played a part in public affairs, Florence Nightingale is her only competitor. For half a century she was famous as half of the Webb partnership. Everyone knew that, with Bernard Shaw, they were the kernel of the Fabian Society, that they wrote, among an enormous number of scholarly books, a classical history of trade unionism, that as the persistent and persuasive advocates of collectivism and "the inevitability of gradualness," they provided the basic ideas which inspired the Labor Party until the second World War.

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BEATRICE Webb's Diaries 1924-1932 (Book); BOOKS; WEBB, Beatrice; COLE, Margaret, 1893-1980; FABIAN Society (Great Britain); COLLECTIVISM
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