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politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Both the Women's Peace Crusade
and the Women's International League
distributed leaflets, organized marches, and gave speeches on the subject of peace negotiation, even as the war raged into its fourth year. When the armistice... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace
, which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | After the war, IOF
increasingly turned her attention towards the promotion of peace and international co-operation through her involvement with the Women's International League
as an executive member, and as the secretary of her local... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | With the declaration of war, however, on 4 August, 1914, VW
's politics and those of the NUWSS parted company. The NUWSS supported the government, and on August the sixth resolved to suspend political activity... |
politics | Una Marson | UM
made a speech on social and political equality in Jamaica at the Women's International League
conference on Africa held in London. The Women's International League
was at this time chaired by Kathleen Innes
. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 72 |
politics | Naomi Mitchison | In 1917 NM
joined the movement to establish a League of Nations
. In the twenties she participated in the Women's International League
, an organization of feminist outlook which was working to establish such... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
, as chairman of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
, organised a meeting in Trafalgar Square to protest against the continuing blockade of Germany. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 325 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She and her husband
probably managed to get there because they came by ship from America, not from Britain, whose authorities were blocking all sea travel. Only two other British women were permitted to attend... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
firmly believed that the Treaty of Versailles was doing more harm than good to Europe's attempts to recover from war. Her foresight as to its effects comes over strongly in her autobiography, published in... |
politics | Vera Brittain | She and Holtby attended a number of League of Nations
Assemblies, including the one held in August 1926 at Geneva in Switzerland, when Germany was accepted into the League. After 1923 these trips were... |
politics | Vera Brittain | VB
had supported a number of pacifist groups in the early 1930s, including the National Peace Council
, the Union of Democratic Control
, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 251 |
politics | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
, attending the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Congress in Luxembourg, was appointed a WILPF Vice-President, in recognition of work done over twenty-eight years. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 149, 255 |
politics | Pearl S. Buck | Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB
worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
. Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press. 185-6 |
politics | Maude Royden | Through her anti-war activities, MR
became involved with the Women's International League (WIL)
, a pacifist organisation founded by British women who had attended the Women's International Congress
in Amsterdam in 1915. Back in England... |
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