LOC
's legacy has been largely political and social. A number of recent social histories document her activities, including works by Lucy Bland
, Heloise Brown
, and Barry J. Faulk
. Joseph Donohue
's...
Literary responses
Henrietta Müller
Critic Heloise Brown
considers The Women's Penny Paperan invaluable resource for the historian of the Victorian women's movement, and contends that it evidences support for the woman's peace movement. She notes that an early...
politics
Laura Ormiston Chant
She was amongst the first women to be invited to act as vice-presidents of the Society, which was founded in 1816. Others included Priscilla Peckover
(a Quaker minister who edited and published the journal Peace...
politics
Laura Ormiston Chant
Later assessments of LOC
's social purity work have likewise been mixed. Heloise Brown
describes her as advocating from an Evangelical feminist position
’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press, 2003.
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a reactionary form of social purity
’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press, 2003.