Beatrice Webb: A Life

by Carole Seymour-Jones

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566630010
• ISBN13: 9781566630016
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"