Ethel Snowden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ethel Snowden

British socialist, feminist, women's suffrage and pacifist campaigner

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1881

Place of Birth: Harrogate, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-Feb-1951

Profession: politician, suffragette

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ethel Snowden

  • Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden (born Ethel Annakin; 8 September 1881 – 22 February 1951), was a British socialist, human rights activist, and feminist politician.
  • 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.
  • She aligned to the Fabian Society 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 system, which made her unpopular when relayed to the left-wing in Britain. Snowden married the prominent Labour Party politician and future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden.
  • She rose up the social scale in the 1920s, much to her pleasure, and she welcomed appointment as a Governor of the BBC and as a Director of the Royal Opera House.
  • Although her husband received a Viscountcy, money became tight and she led the way in caring for him; after his death, she resumed temperance campaigning as well as journalism.
  • She tended to be a controversial public speaker, who would fill with enthusiasm for a project and pursue it to the disregard of anything that stood in her way; it was said of her that "tact or discretion were foreign to her nature".

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