{"product_id":"9781566630016","title":"Beatrice Webb: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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. With 8 pages of photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dee, Ivan R. Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035816280304,"sku":"9781566630016","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566630016_p0.jpg?v=1763787823","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566630016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}