Fellowship of Reconciliation

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Storm Jameson
As critic Joanna Labon observes, SJdefined herself by war and lived much of her life in angry opposition to it.
Labon, Joanna. “Tracing Storm Jameson”. Women: A Cultural Review, No. 1, pp. 33 -47.
34
Though Jameson undertook most of her activism during the 1930s and 1940s, her...
politics Maude Royden
MR attended the founding meeting (held at Cambridge) of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) , an international Christian pacifist organisation, of which she became the travelling secretary.
“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
“History and Supporters”. FOR (The Fellowship of Reconcilation): History.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
113-14
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB 's first Letter to Peace-Lovers appeared, with the endorsement of the Peace Pledge Union and the Fellowship of Reconciliation . The last in the series went out on 6 September 1945.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
387
Brittain, Vera. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain. Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan Eden-GreenEditors , Virago, 1988.
280

Timeline

December 1914
A group of Christian pacifists including, among others, George Lansbury , Maude Royden , William Temple , Dr Henry Hodgkin , and Leyton Richards , held a meeting at Cambridge to found the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR ), an international organisation.