Making herself disagreeable
Barbara Wootton, 6 December 1984
The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Vol. III: ‘The Power to Alter Things’
edited by Norman Mackenzie and Jeanne Mackenzie.
Virago, 445 pp., £20, October 1984,0 86068 211 0 Show More
edited by Norman Mackenzie and Jeanne Mackenzie.
Virago, 445 pp., £20, October 1984,
Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists
by Lisanne Radice.
Macmillan, 350 pp., £20, June 1984,0 333 36183 0 Show More
by Lisanne Radice.
Macmillan, 350 pp., £20, June 1984,
“... to which, however, no reference is made in the diary. In her admirable biography of the couple, Lisanne Radice reports that Beatrice served on ‘a number of’ – unspecified – ‘prestigious government committees’, not mentioned in the diary, and that ‘as the war continued into its second and third years, the Labour movement began to assume ... ”
