Catherine Webb (co-operative activist)
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Born | cooperative movement | 4 May 1859
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Relatives | Arthur Webb (brother) |
Catherine Webb (4 May 1859 – 29 July 1947) was an influential
Biography
Webb was the daughter of Thomas Webb, the manager of the Battersea and Wandsworth Cooperative Society. Her father worked his way up from poverty through the cooperative movement and she was raised middle-class. This upbringing brought question to the class in which she identified as she referred to herself as “a working-woman.” [2]
Webb joined the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1883.
Webb was the author of The Woman with the Basket, one of the most comprehensive sources for the early history of the Co-operative Women's Guild.[3]
Further reading
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket (1927) Manchester: Co-operative Wholesale Soc. Print. Works
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53250. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ ISBN 9780313309953. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
- ^ a b Webb, Catherine (1927). The Woman with the Basket: the History of the Women's Co-operative Guild (1883-1927). Manchester: Co-operative Wholesale Society's Printing Works.
- ISBN 0-313-30995-7.
- ^ Stukey, Karyn. "From Kitchen Table to Conference Table: Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944) and the Women's Co-operative Guild". Political Women. National Co-operative Archive. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.