Ellen Robinson

Ellen Robinson (14 March 1840 – 6 March 1912) was a British teacher, Quaker minister, feminist and peace activist.[1] She founded the Liverpool and Birkenhead Women's Peace and Arbitration Society (LBWPAS)[2] and served on the council of the International Peace Bureau.[3] She was also active with the Peace Society, the International Arbitration and Peace Association, and the Religious Society of Friends. Robinson used her background as a teacher to give frequent speeches supporting anti-war principles.[2][4] In particular, she opposed British militarism of the Second Boer War in South Africa and spoke against European human rights abuses in Africa and Asia.[3]

Ellen Robinson
Born14 March 1840 
Derby 
Died6 March 1912  (aged 71)
Liverpool 
OccupationPeace activist 

Robinson worked toward broader cooperation between peace groups.[2][5] She often collaborated with other peace campaigners and feminists including Eugénie Potonié-Pierre, with whom she organized several meetings in Paris,[3] and Priscilla Hannah Peckover.[2]

She died in Liverpool on 6 March 1912.[6]

See also

References

  1. "Ellen Robinson". Women In Peace. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  2. Brown, Heloise (2003). "The Truest Form of Patriotism": Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press. pp. 99–113. ISBN 978-0719065316.
  3. Cooper, Sandi E. (19 December 1991). Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199923380.
  4. The Herald of Peace and International Arbitration. Published under the auspices of the Peace Society. 1889. p. 204.
  5. Rappaport, Helen (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. ABC-CLIO. p. 557. ISBN 9781576071014.
  6. "Two Women Workers". London Standard. 12 March 1912. p. 11. Retrieved 21 June 2020 via NewspaperArchive.
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