“... and Girton were particularly reviled: ‘if you’re naughty, you’ll have to go to Girton,’ Beatrice Webb’s sister warned her daughters. And, indeed, half the women who went to them did remain single, whether through male revulsion at the idea of an educated mate or their own unwillingness to accept the constraints of traditional marriage. What ...”

“... was essential to his conception of his role as man of letters and public affairs. He approved of Beatrice Potter’s marriage to Webb despite his not having a ‘socially attractive family’: but clearly you needed to be as clever as Webb to extract such a concession. He was himself ...”

“... a large circle of female friends in the years after Newnham – Eleanor Marx, Olive Schreiner and Beatrice Potter (the future Mrs Webb) were among the more notable – her love for other women went largely unrequited. The best-known object of her affections seems to have been the novelist and aesthetician Vernon Lee, to ...”

“... aristocracy and the well-connected world of upper-middle-class philanthropists. (Mary’s cousin Beatrice Potter, later Webb, Fabian socialist and co-founder of the London School of Economics – whose academics are responsible for this new edition – was a member of Booth’s team.) Booth was driven by that peculiarly ...”

“... Raphael Samuel​ adopted his notetaking method from Beatrice and Sidney Webb, progenitors of Fabian socialism, who developed it in the late 19th century:Each thought or reference to a source was written or pasted onto a single side of a loose sheet of paper. It might be the source itself – an advertisement, a jam-jar label or an extract from a Xerox – it mattered only that it was attributed and subheaded under a theme ...”

“... Labour Party through none of them. He was, of course, not without connections. He was Beatrice Webb’s nephew and so by marriage nephew to Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield), a senior minister in the first two Labour Governments. His father, C.A. Cripps (Lord Parmoor), was also a senior minister in those ...”

“... urging a renewed Lib-Lab pact, while other crucial policymaking contributors, such as Sidney Webb and Cole, pressed Labour’s case for governing alone and argued that liberalism in general was defunct and irrelevant. The variety of views, though it must have been confusing to some readers, was not a bad thing. After Labour’s first, feeble stint in ...”

“... Labour Government in 1924, along with his brother-in-law, Lord Passfield, better known as Sidney Webb. What with his father’s example, and the intermittent influence of Aunt Bo (as his mother’s sister Beatrice was known), young Stafford had the makings of a hereditary socialist toff – or so it might seem. He resisted ...”

“... Bennett, G.K. Chesterton, J.G. Frazer, John Galsworthy, Jerome K. Jerome, John Masefield and Beatrice and Sidney Webb. George Bernard Shaw also petitioned for a pardon – in fact, it would be hard to imagine such a campaign without him. In 1937 he wrote to the Irish Press: The trial occurred at a time when the ...”

“... that the Colonial Secretary who signed the Land Apportionment Act was the noted Fabian, Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield, who soon thereafter set out with Beatrice to admire the USSR; while the worst uprooting of Rhodesia’s black peasantry (as well as the run-up to Mau Mau in Kenya) took place under another noted Fabian ...”