Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943, by Kitty Muggeridge and Ruth Adam." Commentary Magazine. 1968.

Abstract:

In an earlier biography, Margaret Cole, a long-time friend and political associate, wrote that Beatrice Webb, like “happy countries,” had “almost no personsonal history.” There is a sense in which this is true: the story of Mrs. Webb’s life is significantly the history of her times. But it was nonetheless an exceedingly personal history and what is fascinating to watch is the transmutation of that personal history into a social history of such moment to her contemporaries and to ourselves. It is also fascinating to watch what biographers of different political bent make of that personal and social history.

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