Dick Sheppard

Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very...

While working for the Daily HeraldGHS developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard , who was one influence towards her conversion to...

GHS also knew and loved the greatOlive Schreiner .Vernon Lee , she said, was primarily a friend of her scientist husband; they both stayed with her several times. Schütze pondered the paradox...

During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot , John Middleton Murry , Edith Sitwell , Wilfrid Meynell

During World War One GHS became and remained a fully convinced pacifist, as did her husband. Years later, with Nazi Germany re-arming, she reluctantly ceased to be a pacifist. She resigned, painfully, from Dick Sheppard

MR joined two other Christian pacifists, Herbert Gray and Dick Sheppard , in a plan to create a Peace Army of non-violent, passive resisters who would serve as a human barrier in military confrontations.

Even after this, MR remained active in the peace movement until the outbreak of the second world war. During the 1930s she worked perseveringly for peace in Palestine. When Italy invaded and appropriated Abyssinia...