Anecdote about
Beatrice Webb
(1858-1943)

From The Journals of Arnold Bennett, 1911-1921 (1932), p. 196.

Yacht Club, London, Wednesday, May 9th.
I came to London Tuesday. Lunched at Webbs. Apropos of Squire's poem in current issue of Statesman, the Webbs were both funny. Mrs. Webb especially. She said, `Poetry means nothing to me. It confuses me. I always want to translate it back into prose.'

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