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‘Two of the nicest people if ever there was one’: The correspondence of Sidney and Beatrice WebbFootnote

Pages 286-292 | Published online: 30 Sep 2008

  • 1891 . B. Potter to S. Webb . Letters , I 20 Aug. : 281
  • Hynes , S. 1972 . “ ‘The Art of Beatrice Webb’ ” . In Edwardian Occasions 152 – 72 . London
  • Muggeridge , K. and Adam , R. 1967 . Beatrice Webb, A Life 1858–1943 136 – 9 . London
  • Vincent , J. 1978 . ‘Marriage to some purpose’ . Times Literary Supplement , 19 May : 551 —review of the Letters in
  • 1897 . B. Webb to Frederic Harrison . Letters , II 28 Dec. : 59
  • Letters , III 322
  • 1902 . S. to B. Webb . 21 July
  • 1914 . Letters , II 30 Jan. : 168
  • Letters , II 101 133 (editorial notes);
  • Clay , Rachel . 1931 . Letters , III 28 Sept. : 366 her admission that Sidney's period in office in the second Labour government had been ‘a good and profitable experience for him'—letter to
  • ‘Friends of Seaham’ . Letters , III 159 – 61 . 175 – 9 . 193 – 8 . 207 – 12 . 304 – 5 . 366 – 70 . her numerous and copious letters to the
  • Shiels , Sir Drummond . 1974 . “ ‘Sidney Webb as a Minister’ ” . In The Webbs and their Work Edited by: Cole , M. 217 – 18 . Brighton
  • 1966 . Fabian Socialism and English Politics 208 – 22 . London
  • Thompson , P. 1967 . Socialists. Liberals and Labour ‘The .Struggle for London 1885–1914. London chap. X.
  • 1890 . S. Webb to B. Potter . Letters , I 10 Oct. : 206 269 420 6 April 1891, 18 June 1892
  • 1888 . S. Webb to Margery Davidson , 12 Dec.
  • 1890 . Beatrice Potter . Letters , I 13 Aug. : 119 167 – 70 .
  • ‘Literary References’ Vol. I. , 451 Webb, Sidney James the profusion of, in the Index under
  • 1891 . S. Webb to B. Potter . Letters , I 14 March : 264 268 – 9 . 6 April Cf. his lectures: ‘The Way out 1884, Passfield Papers. VI 19. fols. 10. 56–58: ‘Peace on Earth’. 1891, ibid., VI 52. fol. 14. British Library of Political and Economic Science.
  • 1978 . ‘Fabian Socialism and the Arts, c. 1884–1918 . . .’ , 171 – 80 . Oxford University . I discuss this point in detail in my D.Phil. thesis.
  • 1895 . Beatrice Webb's Diary , 1 Feb. 18 April 1896 typescript copy at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Cf. my D. Phil, Thesis. pp. 172–3. 199–200.
  • 1909 . B. Webb to H. G. Wells . Letters , II 24 Feb. : 323 – 6 .
  • Shaw , G. B. 1935 . Letters , III 30 July : 408 to E. M. Forster. 24 April 1934, ibid., pp. 393–4; to Leonard Woolf. ?Autumn 1920, ibid, p. 141.
  • 1898 . S. Webb to Shaw . Letters , II 28 April : 62 and to B. Webb. 7 July 1902, ibid., p. 153.
  • 1902 . B. to S. Webb . Letters , II 13 and 16 July : 161 163 307 – 8 . 29 April 1908; to Mary Playne. 19 March 1907,ibid., p. 208; to Shaw. 20 Sept. 1923
  • Letters , III 182
  • 1908 . S. to B. Webb. . Letters , II. 30 April : 308 to S. Webb. 16 Sept. 1934, ibid., p. 402. of. 30 May 1924, Passfield Papers. II 3 (i)—notincluded in the Letters.
  • 1890 . S. Webb to B. Potter . Letters , I 14 Dec. : 242
  • 1902 . B. to S. Webb . Letters , II 16 July : 163 and to Mary Playne, 19 March 1907, ibid., p. 250.
  • 1904 . B. Webb to Mary Playne . Letters , II 20 April : 187 213 3 July 1905
  • 1907 . B. Webb Diary , 18 Feb.
  • 1902 . B. to S. Webb . Letters , II 20 July : 168 to Mary Playne, June 1903, ?20 April 1904, ibid., pp. 187, 202; to Georgina Meinertzhagen, 7 Dec. 1903, ibid., p. 195. Cf
  • 1924 . S. to B. Webb . Letters , III l0 July : 214 288 377 24 May 1927, 20 June 1932
  • 1902 . B. to S. Webb . Letters , II 20 July : 167 cf B. Webb Diary. 21 May 1894, cited ibid., p. 17.
  • 1925 . S. to B. Webb . Letters , III 21 Feb. : 228
  • Hobsbawm , E.J. 1964 . “ ‘The Fabians Reconsidered’ ” . In Labouring Men 264 London
  • Hobsbawm , E.J. 1978 . ‘Labours of Love’ . New Statesman , 19 May : 673
  • 1921 . S. Webb to L. Woolf . Letters , III 16 May : 150 – 1 .
  • 1898 . B. Webb to Catherine Courtney . Letters , II 29 April : 64
  • Foxwell , H. S. 1913 . Letters , III 18 Feb. : 14 to Herbert Samuel. 27 Oct. 1917, ibid., pp. 93–4;
  • 1920 . Percy Redfern , 22 March : 133
  • 1907 . S. Webb to H. G. Wells . Letters , II I5 June : 263 Though cf.
  • Tawney , R. H. 1952 . The Webbs in Perspective 8 London These themes were not so elusive as to escape the notice of all contemporaries: see the recollections of
  • Norman and MacKenzie , Jeanne . 1973 . The Time Traveller 245 – 6 . London
  • 1909 . B. Webb to H. G. Wells . Letters , II 10 Feb. : 323 cf. B. Webb Diary, March 1909, and the account in
  • 1910 . B. Webb Diary , 5 Nov.
  • ∗ Norman MacKenzie (ed.), The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 3 vols. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 1978: vol. 1, Apprenticeships 1873–1892, pp. xx + 453; vol. 2, Partnership 1892–1912, pp. xv + 405; vol. 3, Pilgrimage 1912–1947, pp. xii + 482; £22.00 each, £60.00 the set. (Hereafter Letters)

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