"A Prophet Before Her Time:" Beatrice Potter Webb, Part I


influential document] stemmed from what all of us had imbibed from the Webbs." [p. 176]

(4) Michael E. Rose, The English Poor Law, (Newton Abbot, England: David & Charles, 1971), p. 322.

(5) Muggeridge and Adam, p. 258.

(6) Carole Seymour-Jones, Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict (London: Allison & Busby, 1992), pp. 2, 11.

(7) Muggeridge and Adam, p. 101.

(8) Seymour-Jones, p. 76.

(9) Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb, (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1985), p. 143.

(10) Ibid.

(11) Muggeridge and Adam, p. 108.

(12) Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, (London: Longmans Green, 1926), p. 267.

(13) McBriar, p. 29.

(14) Rose, The Relief of Poverty: 1834-1914, 2nd ed., (London: Macmillan, 1986), p. 17, quoting Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People of London, 17 vols., (1889-1903), vo. 1, (1889).

(15) Beatrice Webb, ed. by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, The Diaries of Beatrice Webb, vol. 1: 1873-92, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 322 (1 January 1890). "At last I am a socialist!"

(16) G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, vol. 3: The Second International, (London: Macmillan, 1961), p. 107.

(17) Nolan, p. 49.

(18) G.D.H. Cole, p. 105.

(19) McBriar, p. 175.

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