Fanny Bixby Spencer

Overview

Fanny Bixby Spencer born Long Beach, CA November 6, 1879 (d. 1930). Pacifist poet, essayist, and playwright. Wealthy socialite; socialist; Tolstoyan Unitarian. Published pacifist works "Non-Resistance", 1917, "The Revolutionary Non-Resistant", 1919, and play "The Jazz of Patriotism", 1920. Blacklisted for opposing WWI.

Quotations

"[T]o exalt patriotism without exalting war at the same time is something like going out to swim without going near the water." (The Repudiation of War, 1922, in L.A. Times, Oct. 16, 1988)