Adrian
(1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge
...
politics
Virginia Woolf
Like many of her friends and associates, VW
was staunchly anti-war. Her brother Adrian was an active pacifist and secretary of the No-Conscription Fellowship
, and she and many friends were COs, or Conscientious...
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988.
163-5
politics
Eva Gore-Booth
Gore-Booth and Roper described themselves as extreme pacifists.
qtd. in
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988.
163
Their work for the No-Conscription Fellowship
(which was founded in early 1915 following a letter written by Fenner Brockway
in November 1914) included travelling the...
Travel
Eva Gore-Booth
During the war, as members of the No-Conscription Fellowship
, they travelled around England speaking for conscientious objectors at their tribunals.
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995.
244
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988.
170
Timeline
November 1914: At Lilla Brockway's suggestion, her husband,...
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November 1914
At Lilla Brockway
's suggestion, her husband, Fenner Brockway
, wrote a letter that he printed in the Labour Leader calling for all war-resisters to contact him; the No-Conscription Fellowship
was established by early 1915.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.