Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict

by Carole Seymour - Jones (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.35

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.35

  Beatrice Webb was born in 1858 into a wealthy and privileged family. However, she renounced society life to fight for the people of the abyss , venturing in disguise into the slums of the East End, and challenging Lloyd George in a campaign to abolish the workhouse. Socialism became a secular religion for Beatrice, with her passionate and emotional nature devoted to its cause. Longing to become a mother, she gave up the one man she loved, Joseph Chamberlain the dazzling leader of the radicals, to marry Sidney Webb, a Cockney hairdresser's son, in a brave act of class rebellion.