Sidney and Beatrice
Michael Holroyd
- A Victorian Courtship: The Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb by Jeanne MacKenzie
Weidenfeld, 148 pp, £5.50, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
‘I can’t help it being “Beauty and the Beast,” ’ wrote Sidney Webb to Beatrice Potter shortly before their marriage in 1892, ‘ – if only it is not a case of Titania and Bottom!’ The courtship of this super-extraordinary pair – ‘two active self-centred people, excessively devoted to the public cause,’ as H.G. Wells characterised them in The New Machiavelli – was the oddest romance in the Fabian calendar and a triumph for Sidney’s policy of gradualism.
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Vol. 1 No. 1 · 25 October 1979 » Michael Holroyd » Sidney and Beatrice
pages 23-24 | 1428 words