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The Fabians invited the highly popular author and futurist H. G. Wells to join the Society, feeling that it needed a new direction. Wells, however, fomented a revolution against his friends known as the Old Gang. With some difficulty, Shaw prevented the Wells takeover, but Wells nevertheless had a big impact on the plans of both the Webbs and Shaws, including the Webbs’ anti-poverty campaigns after 1909. At the same time, the Votes for Women campaign reached a crescendo, with the political and economic position of women the key social question of the day. Shaw had actively supported women’s political rights since the 1890s, which was a key part of Shaw’s insistence on economic equality generally.
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Gahan, P. (2017). 1905–9: Noises Off—H. G. Wells Among the Fabians. Votes for Women!. In: Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48442-6_3
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