Ethel Snowden
British socialist, feminist, women's suffrage and pacifist campaigner (1881-1951) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 69
Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden, was a British socialist, human rights activist, suffragist and feminist. From a middle-class background, she became a Christian Socialist through a radical preacher and initially promoted temperance and teetotalism in the slums of Liverpool.
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As sketched by Marguerite Martyn for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1910
Vera Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Samuel, Lloyd George, Ethel Snowden, and Philip Snowden, before 1937
Snowden in 1912
In 1910, reporter Marguerite Martyn sketched this image of Ethel Snowden mocking an anti-suffrage British parliamentarian
Snowden's Cairn. The plaques read:
"In this place mingled with the soil and near the friends he loved are the ashes of Philip Snowden First Viscount of Ickornshaw who lived his whole life in the service of the common people and died in the love of his native land on May 15th 1937."
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Here also are the ashes of Ethel his beloved and devoted wife who shared his labours for so many years and died on February 22nd 1951"About this person
She aligned to the Fabian Society, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and later the Independent Labour Party, earning an income by lecturing in Britain and abroad. Snowden was one of the leading campaigners for women's suffrage before the First World War, then founding The Women's Peace Crusade to oppose the war and call for a negotiated peace. After a visit to the Soviet Union she developed a strong criticism of its political system, which made her unpopular when relayed to the left-wing in Britain.
