Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history.
More than a local politician, Mary Bridges Adams was among the dynamic late nineteenth-century women activists who sought to transform government policy through socialist initiatives, with the ultimate (utopian) aim of creating a social nation.
The author has assembled a thorough range of sources, including new materials that will bring fresh insights to this biography and more generally to Labour Party and socialist historiography, well-studied topics.
The people Adams knew and the circles in which she travelled are particularly attractive features of this book. Foes thought her an awful woman: friends like George Bernard Shaw remembered the power of her oratory. Placed against the circumstances in which she lived and presented as part of a militant and anti-capitalist tradition within labour history, her life story contributes to new ways of seeing both socialist and feminist politics.
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Making socialists
Mary Bridges Adams and the fight for knowledge and power, 1855–1939
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Publisher
Manchester University PressYear
2018Print ISBN
9780719089947
9780719076909
eBook ISBN
9781526130464
Topic
EducationSubtopic
History of EducationTable of contents
- MAKING SOCIALISTS: Mary Bridges Adams and the fight for knowledge and power, 1855–1939
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: biography and history
- 1 Being Mary
- 2 Rebel communities
- 3 Labour politics in London
- 4 Rethinking socialism and education
- 5 Education and class struggle
- 6 The disinherited child and the politics of voice
- 7 Bebel House and the political education of working women
- 8 Revolutionary politics and the First World War
- 9 Reflections, connections and Utopian visions
- APPENDIX 1 The Daltry family tree
- APPENDIX 2 The Adams family tree
- APPENDIX 3 Mary Bridges Adams (née Daltry) time-line
- APPENDIX 4 Biographical notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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