Agnes Dollan

Overview

Agnes Dollan (née Moir) born Glasgow, Scotland August 16, 1887 (d. 1966). Pacifist feminist and suffragette; Socialist politician; public antiwar protests throughout World War I; led local Women's International League 1915; co-founded Women's Peace Crusade 1916; jailed in rent protest 1917.

Quotations

"If the government could afford £30,000,000 for warships it can afford to finance work for the unemployed." (election speech, Dec. 4, 1921; photo radicalglasgow.blog)