Beatrice Potter Webb
(1858–1943)
Social Economist

 

"…if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research."

http://www.webster/edu/~woolflm/webb.html
http://www.manchester.edu/Academic/Programs/departments/econ/files/museum/women/webb.htm
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/gutoho/passfield_papers.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUwebbB.htm