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Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick CH (1864 – 1939) was a British feminist and pacifist. The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate

As a schoolgirl, she read On the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, which influenced her to become a feminist. John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 &ndash 8 May 1873 British Philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential She was educated at Girton College , Cambridge, and she married the Manchester University lecturer Frederick Swanwick in 1888. Girton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a She worked as a journalist, initially as a sort of protegée of C.P. Scott, and wrote articles for the Manchester Guardian. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Charles Prestwich Scott ( 26 October 1846 &ndash 1 January 1932) was a British journalist publisher and politician The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. In 1906 she joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in preference to the Women's Social and Political Union, because of her belief in non-violence. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS also known as the Suffragists (not to be confused with the Suffragettes was an organisation of Women's She quickly became prominent in the National Union, and was editor of its weekly journal, The Common Cause from 1909–1912. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting She remained on the NUWSS Executive until 1915. She was also a member of the Labour Party. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the

On the outbreak of World War I, she began campaigning for a negotiated peace. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All In 1915, together with such other prominent suffragists as Catherine Marshall and Agnes Maude Royden, she resigned from the National Union over its refusal to send delegates to the International Women's Congress at the Hague. Catherine Marshall, born Catherine Wood, ( September 27, 1914 — March 18, 1983) was an Author of nonfiction inspirational She was one of the founding members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From 1914 she had already been active in the Union of Democratic Control. The Union of Democratic Control was a British Pressure group formed in 1914 to press for a more responsive Foreign policy. G. K. Chesterton would criticize her pacifism in the September 2, 1916 issue of Illustrated London News:

Mrs. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The Illustrated London News was a Magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch Swanwick, the Suffragist who has reappeared as a Pacifist, has recently declared that there must be no punishment for the responsible Prussian. She puts it specifically on the ground that they were promised, or promised themselves, the conquest of the whole world; and they have not got it. This, she says, will be punishment enough. If I were to propose, to the group which is supposed to inspire the Pacifist propaganda, that a man who burgled their strong boxes or pilfered their petty cash should suffer no punishment beyond failing to get the money, they would very logically ask me if I was an Anarchist. If I proposed that anybody trying to knife or pistol another person should walk away and resume his daily amusements if the knife broke or the pistol missed fire, they would certainly ask me if I had contemplated the possibility of encouraging the employment of knives and pistols. Crime can be only insufficiently restrained when the alternative is between success and punishment. It could hardly be restrained at all if the alternative were only between success and failure; that is, between success and freedom—including freedom to try again.

This quotation amply illustrates both Chesterton's anti-German and anti-feminist prejudices, as well as his tendentiousness as a journalist. In fact, this was far from the only opposition she suffered both as a suffragist and internationalist, including physical violence.

After the war she maintained her internationalist views, opposing the punitive terms of the Treaty of Versailles and serving as the United Kingdom substitute delegate to the League of Nations. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. The League of Nations was an International organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920 In the 1930s she became increasingly depressed by the growing cult of violence and oppression, which was increased by the death of her husband in 1934. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After the outbreak of the Second World War she committed suicide with an overdose of veronal in November 1939. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Her brother was the well-known painter Walter Sickert. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Walter Richard Sickert ( May 31, 1860 in Munich, Germany &ndash January 22, 1942 in Bath, England Her father Oswald Sickert was a painter technically of Danish nationality, though he always considered himself German and did not speak Danish. Oswald Adalbert Sickert ( 21 February 1828 - 11 November 1885) was a Danish-German artist considered a painter of dramatic genre landscapes The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Her mother Eleanor Louisa Henry was English, the illegitimate daughter of astronomer Richard Sheepshanks, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and an Irish dancer. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Richard Sheepshanks (born 30 July 1794 in Leeds - died 4 August 1855) was an English Astronomer. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Her autobiography I Have Been Young among much else gives a remarkable account both of the non-militant women's suffrage campaign and of anti-war campaigning in the First World War, together with philosophical discussions of non-violence. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

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