1992, ISBN: 9781566630016

Hardcover

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc.; Elephant Paperbacks, 1992. xii, 369 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket lightl… More...

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc.; Elephant Paperbacks, 1992. xii, 369 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket lightly soiled, with a creased back flap. "'She was,' George Bernard Shaw wrote, 'a great citizen, a great civilizer, and a great investigator.' For many she represented the triumph of the independent Englishwoman, for others little more than a heroic failure. But whatever responses Beatrice Webb provoked in her unusual life, she could scarcely be ignored. In this fine and sensitive new biography, Carole Seymour-Jones uncovers the brilliant and beautiful woman who renounced social position to fight for workers and slum dwellers in late-nineteenth-century London; who chose socialism over love and motherhood when she married Sidney Webb; who with Shaw was a founder of Fabian social reform; and who with her husband applauded Soviet communism in its early years. 'Beatrice's story is a very modern one,' the author writes, because 'it is a story of choices. She reworked the Victorian feminine ideal of the "angel in the house" to follow her own original path as a social investigator [and] she paid a heavy price.' Ms. Seymour-Jones has written an intriguing biography with important reverberations for women in our own time. / Carole Seymour-Jones studied history at Oxford and was first drawn to Beatrice Webb through her diaries and letters, many of which appear for the first time in this book. Ms. Seymour-Jones lives and writes in England." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo., Ivan R. Dee, Inc.; Elephant Paperbacks, 1992, 2.75<

1992, ISBN: 1566630010

Hardcover

[EAN: 9781566630016], Used, very good, [PU: Ivan R. Dee, Chicago], Jacket, xii, 369 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition… More...

[EAN: 9781566630016], Used, very good, [PU: Ivan R. Dee, Chicago], Jacket, xii, 369 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket lightly soiled, with a creased back flap. "'She was,' George Bernard Shaw wrote, 'a great citizen, a great civilizer, and a great investigator.' For many she represented the triumph of the independent Englishwoman, for others little more than a heroic failure. But whatever responses Beatrice Webb provoked in her unusual life, she could scarcely be ignored. In this fine and sensitive new biography, Carole Seymour-Jones uncovers the brilliant and beautiful woman who renounced social position to fight for workers and slum dwellers in late-nineteenth-century London; who chose socialism over love and motherhood when she married Sidney Webb; who with Shaw was a founder of Fabian social reform; and who with her husband applauded Soviet communism in its early years. 'Beatrice's story is a very modern one,' the author writes, because 'it is a story of choices. She reworked the Victorian feminine ideal of the "angel in the house" to follow her own original path as a social investigator [and] she paid a heavy price.' Ms. Seymour-Jones has written an intriguing biography with important reverberations for women in our own time. / Carole Seymour-Jones studied history at Oxford and was first drawn to Beatrice Webb through her diaries and letters, many of which appear for the first time in this book. Ms. Seymour-Jones lives and writes in England." - Publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<

ISBN: 9781566630016

Dee Publisher, Ivan R. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Dee Publisher, Ivan R, 3

ISBN: 9781566630016

BEATRICE WEBB: A LIFE By Carole Seymour-jones - Hardcover **Mint Condition**. Like New, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice]

1992, ISBN: 9781566630016

Ivan I. Dee, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover ., Ivan I. Dee, 1992, 4