Theodora Wilson Wilson

Overview

Theodora Wilson Wilson born Kendal, Cumbria, England January 13, 1865 (d. 1941). English absolute pacifist; Quaker. Leader of war resisters. Author of 62 books, novels, and religious stories. Early member of Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR); founding member of WILPF. Founder and editor of The New Crusader, which produced an “Affirmation Against War”, leading to the No More War Movement, 1921. Newspaper The Woman’s Dreadnought described her 1916 antiwar novel The Last Weapon, A Vision as “the most powerful peace book yet published,” and was confiscated by government as subversive, 1917.

Quotations

“Does no one read history? Don’t they know that this war has been sown from other wars and that it will sow another?” (Those Strange Years, 1937)