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...and through his constant supply of disinterested advice, Sidney became a member of the executive committee and drafted the party’s first and, for a long time, its most important policy statement, Labour and the New Social Order (1918). Shortly afterward he consolidated his position by serving as one of the experts chosen by the Miners’ Federation to sit on the Sankey Commission on the...
...and to women aged 30 or older; and third, in 1918 Labour reconstituted itself as a formally socialist party with a democratic constitution and a national structure. The party’s new program, “Labour and the New Social Order,” drafted by Fabian Society leaders Sidney and Beatrice Webb, committed Labour to the pursuit of full employment with a minimum wage and a maximum workweek,...
traveler and writer and one of the very first American newspaperwomen.
She was married in 1797 to Captain William Royall, a gentleman farmer who served in the American Revolution and died in 1813. In her 50s Anne Royall began to journey across the country, and from 1826 to 1831 she published 10 accounts of her travels, which remain valuable sources of social history. An eccentric and acerbic woman, Royall was tried and convicted in Washington, D.C., in 1829 for being a “common scold,” the result of her antagonism to a local Presbyterian church. John Eaton, Andrew Jackson’s secretary of war, paid her fine.
In 1831 she began to publish Paul Pry, a Washington newspaper; it was succeeded by The Huntress (1836–54). In those newspapers Royall crusaded against government corruption and incompetence and promoted states’ rights, Sunday mail service, and tolerance for Roman Catholics and Masons. John Quincy Adams called her a “virago errant in enchanted armor,” and she gained widespread notoriety for her outspoken and often controversial views.
In addition to her travel books, Royall wrote a novel, The Tennessean (1827), and a play, The Cabinet.
American husband-and-wife writing collaborators whose Story of Civilization, 11 vol. (1935–75), established them among the best known writers of popular philosophy and history.
Will Durant’s writing career began with the publication of Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917). His second book, The Story of Philosophy (1926), sold more than 2,000,000 copies in less than three decades and was translated into several languages. The following year his only novel, Transition, appeared. It is largely an autobiographical account of his own early social, religious, and political disillusionments. In 1970 Durant published Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature. This work, an expansion of the notes of a lifetime of reading modern literature, is informal and anecdotal and is aimed at the general reader.
In 1913, while teaching at the Ferrer Modern School in New York City, Durant married one of his pupils, Ada (or Ida) Kaufman, whom he called Ariel; she later adopted the name legally. Though she had been involved in the writing of every volume of The Story of Civilization, Ariel Durant was not given formal recognition as Will Durant’s collaborator until 1961, with publication of the seventh volume, The Age of Reason Begins. She continued as coauthor with her husband of the subsequent volumes in the series, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 10th volume, Rousseau and Revolution (1967). They described their work together in A Dual Autobiography (1977).
"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized."
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."
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