Eleanor May Moore
/Overview
Eleanor May Moore born Victoria, Australia March 10, 1875 (d. 1949). Pacifist; WILPF leader. Founding member and international secretary of Sisterhood of International Peace, 1915; author of The Quest for Peace, 1949. Opposed WWI conscription and the atomic bomb.
Quotations
On sisterhood: "[B]y every means in their power to bring the humanising influence of women to bear on the abolition of war, and the substitution of international justice and arbitration for irrational methods of violence." (Australian Women's Register, WILPF; 1927 photo Australia.gov)