ABSTRACT
The story of the Webbs provides a unique lesson of what unselfish and single-minded devotion and the methodical hard work of two people can achieve. English social reformers Beatrice and Sidney Webb helped to found both the Fabian Society and the London School of Economics. The Fabian Society was established with a view to bringing about a socialist society through gradual political and economic reform, rather than through the revolutionary change traditionally emphasised by Marxists. Certainly, when Mrs. Webb is appointed a member of the Poor Law Commission, strategy and research become curiously intermingled. When after that one finds Mrs. Webb complaining about the “packed Commission” one cannot but sympathise a little with the “rude ejaculations” of one of her colleagues whom she heard saying “what cheek” while she questioned a witness.
