Helena Normanton

Overview

Helena Normanton born London, England December 14, 1882 (d. 1957). Pioneering British female barrister; feminist suffragist with nonviolent Women's Freedom League, 1907; lifelong pacifist against World War I; CND women's march against atom bomb, 1953.

Quotations

"The only thing that women in any country can do to prevent war is to stop the supply of 'cannon fodder.'" (Report of the Annual Council for Equal Citizenship, Daily Telegraph, March 5, 1937 in V. Woolf, Three Guineas, note 10; photo Edgehill Univ.)