The Diaries of Beatrice Webb (Three-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Mixed format -vol i-ii: paperback (faded spines). vol iii: hardback. vol ii - has some annotations in grey lead.
Volume One: "Glitter Around and Darkness Within" (1873-1892) — This memoir and social history chronicles Beatrice Webb's girlhood and turbulent adolescence as the daughter of a wealthy, cultured family, and details her early social research work among London's East End poor. The diary uncovers her obsessive, self-thwarted courtship with statesman Joseph Chamberlain and traces the personal and intellectual struggles that shaped her into one of Britain's foremost social reformers and economists. Volume Two: "All the Good Things of Life" (1892-1905) — This volume of memoir and political history covers the first two decades of Webb's marriage and partnership with Sidney Webb, presenting their founding of the London School of Economics alongside her tireless work on trade unionism, local government, and poverty. It illustrates the collapse of Liberalism and the rise of the Labour Movement against a backdrop of imperialism and the Boer War, and instructs the reader in the private character behind Webb's formidable public persona through anecdotes involving Churchill, Lloyd George, and Bernard Shaw. Volume Three: "The Power to Alter Things" (1905-1924) — This political memoir chronicles Beatrice Webb's most consequential years of public influence, detailing her work on the Poor Law Commission's Minority Report and the Fabian Society's Research Department during a period of war and upheaval. It argues, through firsthand encounters with figures such as Ramsay MacDonald, Asquith, and the emerging Parliamentary Labour Party, that organised socialism was steadily reshaping British political life.
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Mixed format -vol i-ii: paperback (faded spines). vol iii: hardback. vol ii - has some annotations in grey lead.
Volume One: "Glitter Around and Darkness Within" (1873-1892) — This memoir and social history chronicles Beatrice Webb's girlhood and turbulent adolescence as the daughter of a wealthy, cultured family, and details her early social research work among London's East End poor. The diary uncovers her obsessive, self-thwarted courtship with statesman Joseph Chamberlain and traces the personal and intellectual struggles that shaped her into one of Britain's foremost social reformers and economists. Volume Two: "All the Good Things of Life" (1892-1905) — This volume of memoir and political history covers the first two decades of Webb's marriage and partnership with Sidney Webb, presenting their founding of the London School of Economics alongside her tireless work on trade unionism, local government, and poverty. It illustrates the collapse of Liberalism and the rise of the Labour Movement against a backdrop of imperialism and the Boer War, and instructs the reader in the private character behind Webb's formidable public persona through anecdotes involving Churchill, Lloyd George, and Bernard Shaw. Volume Three: "The Power to Alter Things" (1905-1924) — This political memoir chronicles Beatrice Webb's most consequential years of public influence, detailing her work on the Poor Law Commission's Minority Report and the Fabian Society's Research Department during a period of war and upheaval. It argues, through firsthand encounters with figures such as Ramsay MacDonald, Asquith, and the emerging Parliamentary Labour Party, that organised socialism was steadily reshaping British political life.