Dora Montefiore

Overview

Dora Montefiore (née Dorothy Fuller) born Tooting, London December 20, 1851 (d. 1933). British feminist; Socialist leader. Actively opposed World War I, advocating general strike against war, and hiding to avoid arrest; refused taxes in Boer War and suffrage protest, 1906; barricaded house against collectors, who sold her possessions; arrested for suffrage protest in House of Commons, 1906. Edited Australian newspaper opposing conscription, 1911; arrested for kidnapping in her rescue of 300 starving Irish children, Dublin, 1912.

Quotations

"I had already, during the Boer War, refused willingly to pay income tax, because payment of such tax went towards financing a war in the making of which I had had no voice." (From a Victorian to a Modern, 1927; photo Wikipedia)