Sophia Sturge

Overview

Sophia Sturge born Edgbaston, Birmingham, England January 5, 1849 (d. 1936). British peace campaigner; Quaker absolute pacifist; pioneer in women’s international peacemaking; supported Indian independence; promoted arbitration and world peace; worked with Neutrality League to stop World War I; helped enemy aliens in war; postwar relief for German children; niece and namesake of pioneer woman abolitionist.

Quotations

“It has been a great hope, and a pleasure, to have been brought into contact with so many women from different nations and I do hope we shall all be better friends in the future, and that we may be able to do something, by knowing each other better, to prevent war between the nations of Europe ever being possible again.” (to Aleksandra Gripenberg, July 30, 1890, McFadden, Golden Cables of Sympathy; p. 30 portrait geni)