Editing Beatrice Webb (section)

==''My Creed and My Craft''==
Beatrice Webb left an unfinished autobiography, under the general title ''My Creed and My Craft''. At her death, aged 85, the only autobiographical work she had published was ''My Apprenticeship'' (1926). The posthumously issued ''Our Partnership'' (1948) covered the first two decades of her marriage to Sidney Webb between 1892 and 1911 and their collaboration on a variety of public issues.

In the preface to the second work,<ref>Webb, Beatrice, ''Our Partnership'', 1948, London: Longmans, Green & Co, p. vi.</ref> its editors refer to Webb's: 
<blockquote>desire to describe truthfully her lifelong pursuit of a living philosophy, her changes of outlook and ideas, her growing distrust of benevolent philanthropy as a means of redeeming 'poor suffering humanity' and her leaving of the field of abstract economic theory for the then practically unexplored paths of scientific social research.</blockquote> 
In 1926, when Webb had begun to prepare the second volume, ''Our Partnership'', only to be repeatedly distracted by other more pressing commitments, the book's editors report her finding it difficult to express "her philosophy of life, her belief in the scientific method, but its purpose guided always by religious emotion."<ref>Webb, ''Our Partnership'', 1948, p. vii.</ref>