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Book Synopsis The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb by : Deborah Epstein Nord
Download or read book The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Apprenticeship by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book My Apprenticeship written by Beatrice Webb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an exceptionally able person, with a zest for observation, a knack for pointed comment, and a habit of self-examination - all of which gifts she put to good account in the private diary she kept all her life and in this brilliant volume of autobiography which she based on that diary. It tells the story of a craft and a creed, of a withdrawn but talented girl, growing up in a prosperous household, who turned to social investigation and social reform, moving between the two starkly contrasted worlds of West End smart society and East End squalor. She served a hard apprenticeship, as a woman as well as a professional worker, and in a new introduction to this edition Norman MacKenzie describes the severe personal stresses which lay behind her life of dedication to social improvement, particularly her frustrated passion for Joseph Chamberlain and the troubled courtship which preceded her marriage to Sidney Webb. This volume ends on the eve of that marriage, when she was about to begin her famous and astonishingly productive collaboration with her husband. As historians, publicists and Fabian politicians the Webbs were pioneers of the modern age. The ensuring volume, which chronicles their mature career and was appropriately titled Our Partnership, is also published by the Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Book Synopsis My Apprenticeship by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book My Apprenticeship written by Beatrice Webb and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1926 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb by : Sidney Webb
Download or read book The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Apprenticeship Vol. II. by : Beatrice Potter Webb
Download or read book My Apprenticeship Vol. II. written by Beatrice Potter Webb and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Beatrice Potter Webb was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Apprenticeship Vol. I.' is the second volume of fascinating work on Victorian society. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large railroad interests and many influential friends in politics and industry whose company the young Beatrice would become accustomed to. Upon reaching adulthood, Potter moved to London and helped her cousin, Charles, a social reformer, research his book The Life and Labour of the People in London. It was during this time that she was introduced to Sidney James Webb, who later became her husband and collaborator. The Webb's, together, wrote eleven volumes of work which arguably shaped the way subsequent scholars thought about sociology. They also collaborated on more than 100 books and articles on the conditions of factory workers, and the economic history of Britain, among other subjects.
Book Synopsis Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 by : Deborah Epstein Nord
Download or read book Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.
Book Synopsis Richard Potter, Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist by : Geoffrey Channon
Download or read book Richard Potter, Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist written by Geoffrey Channon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing studies of the Potter family tend to see Richard Potter through the lens of his most famous daughter, the socialist Beatrice Webb, or through Beatrice and her eight siblings, all girls. In this book, their father, whose business activities sustained the family’s upper-middle-class lifestyle and social position, is the subject of study in his own right. He was a new kind of businessman, a corporate capitalist, who operated on an international stage. This book looks inside the principal companies in which Potter was the chairman (the Great Western and Canadian Grand Trunk railways and the Gloucester Wagon Company) to assess his business acumen and his relationships with other leading business figures including Daniel Gooch, Edward Watkin and William Price. It also examines in detail Potter’s relationships with his wife and daughters, describing how he drew them into some of his key business decisions, and how he recognised the individuality of his daughters, encouraging them to read and think outside conventional boundaries, and to engage with famous intellectuals, most notably Herbert Spencer his life-long friend, who were part of the family circle, so shaping their lives as distinctive and strong adults. Beatrice had no doubt that he played a key part in shaping her professional life.
Book Synopsis Walking the Victorian Streets by : Deborah Epstein Nord
Download or read book Walking the Victorian Streets written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary traditions of urban description in the nineteenth century revolve around the figure of the stroller, a man who navigates and observes the city streets with impunity. Whether the stroller appears as fictional character, literary persona, or the nameless, omnipresent narrator of panoramic fiction, he casts the woman of the streets in a distinctive role. She functions at times as a double for the walker's marginal and alienated self and at others as connector and contaminant, carrier of the literal and symbolic diseases of modern urban life. In Walking the Victorian Streets, Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb, Pierce Egan, and Dickens. What, then, of the female walker and urban chronicler? While the male spectator enjoyed the ability to see without being seen, the female stroller struggled to transcend her role as urban spectacle and her association with sexual transgression. In novels, nonfiction, and poetry by Elizabeth Gaskell1 Flora Tristan, Margaret Harkness, Amy Levy, Maud Pember Reeves, Beatrice Webb, Helen Bosanquet, and others, Nord locates the tensions felt by the female spectator conscious of herself as both observer and observed. Finally, Walking the Victorian Streets considers the legacy of urban rambling and the uses of incognito in twentieth-century texts by George Orwell and Virginia Woolf.
Book Synopsis My Apprenticeship by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book My Apprenticeship written by Beatrice Webb and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jewish Marriage Contract by : Louis M. Epstein
Download or read book The Jewish Marriage Contract written by Louis M. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beatrice Webb by : Carole Seymour-Jones
Download or read book Beatrice Webb written by Carole Seymour-Jones and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the brilliant and beautiful woman who renounced her social position to fight for workers and slum dwellers in late-nineteenth-century London, and espoused socialism and social reforms.
Book Synopsis The Wages of Men and Women by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book The Wages of Men and Women written by Beatrice Webb and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beatrice Webb written by Margaret Cole and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1946 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of the life and achievements of Beatrice Webb, an English woman who was heavily involved in the socialist movement during the late 19th century. She and her husband, Sidney Webb, founded the Fabian Society, introduced Trade Unionism, Co-operation, and Socialism to social students, and founded the London School of Economics among a variety of other things. It includes both Webb's public and private life.
Book Synopsis Fabian Essays in Socialism by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Fabian Essays in Socialism written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Poor Law History by : Sidney Webb
Download or read book English Poor Law History written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beatrice Webb, 1858-1943 by : Richard Henry Tawney
Download or read book Beatrice Webb, 1858-1943 written by Richard Henry Tawney and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of Beatrice Webb by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book The Diary of Beatrice Webb written by Beatrice Webb and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: