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This chapter has six sections: 1. General and Prose, including Dickens; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Periodicals, Publishing History; 5. Miscellaneous; 6. Drama. Section 1 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 2 is by Lois Burke and Fiona Snailham; section 3 is by Sally Blackburn-Daniels; section 4 is by Heather Hind; sections 5 and 6 are by William Baker.

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Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) was a British writer, social investigator, and reformer who played a prominent role in her cousin Charles Booth's groundbreaking study of the London poor, Life and Labour of the People in London (1889). With her husband, the writer, politician, and fellow social reformer, Sidney Webb, later 1st Baron Passfield (1859-1947), the two formed a powerful intellectual duo whose drive for effective social reform revolutionized the British welfare system. Together, they published over thirteen books and, with George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and Graham Wallace (1858-1932) founded the London School of Economics in 1895. Beatrice Webb was also a keen diarist and her diaries and autobiography My Apprenticeship, first published in 1926, are important accounts of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century attempts to understand the root causes of poverty in London and to establish appropriate efforts to alleviate the troubles of the London poor. Beatrice Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate from The University of Manchester in 1909 and was the first woman to be elected a fellow of the British Academy.

This chapter has six sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Periodicals and Publishing History; 5. Drama; 6. Miscellaneous and Cross-Genre. Section 1 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 2 is by Lois Burke with assistance from Christian Dickinson, who writes on Dickens; section 3 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 4 is by Helen Williams; section 5 is by Lucy Barnes; section 6 is by William Baker. Thanks for assistance with this chapter must go to Dominic Edwards, Steven Amarnick, Richard Bleiler, Nancy S. Weyant, the bibliographer of Mrs Gaskell, and Patrick Scott. In a departure from previous years, and in order to avoid confusion as to who has contributed what to this chapter, George Borrow, Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, and Richard Jefferies, previously found in the General and Prose section, and the Brontës, Samuel Butler, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, George Gissing, and Anthony Trollope, previously found in the Novel section, will be found in section 6, Miscellaneous and Cross-Genre, as will materials that came in too late to be included in other sections.