In 1917, IOF
also became a founding member of the Leeds branch of the Women's Peace Crusade
. The WPC, which aimed to bring together the interests of women and workers in calling for a...
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
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.
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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...
Textual Features
Eva Gore-Booth
Some of her plays, with other propaganda writings, were produced in support of the Women's Peace Crusade
. In her preface to The Sword of Justice (dated 28 April 1918) she speculates on the possibility...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Kathleen E. Innes
The pamphlet maintains that those who do not actually engage in the battle are perhaps in a position to make a saner judgment upon it as a whole than those who do.
Innes, Kathleen E. Women and War. Friends’ Peace Committee, 1934.
2
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.