Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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politics | Evelyn Sharp | As the Great War rolled on ES
found herself more and more of a pacifist. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 157 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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, 1995. 149, 255 |
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, 1996. 251 |
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, 1996. 185-6 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Along with several retiring members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, IOF
joined the the newly-formed British Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
, who were committed to advocating negotiated peace... |
politics | Kathleen E. Innes | |
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, 1976. 325 |
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 | 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... |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) moved to London to become office secretary of the Women's International League
, British Section. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 67, 246 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
was elected Vice-Chair of the Women's International League
, British Section; she remained in this position until 1934. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 87 |
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