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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.
Socialists --- Women socialists --- Political activists --- Women political activists --- Adams, Mary Bridges-, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- British socialism. --- British welfare state. --- First World War. --- Labour movement. --- Mary Bridges Adams. --- education history. --- political activism. --- political history. --- prosopography. --- social history. --- socialist movement. --- working-class education.
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