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Kathleen E. Innes (1883–1967)

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Altres noms
Royds, Kathleen Elizabeth (birth)
Data de naixement
1883-01-15
Data de defunció
1967-03-27
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
Reading, Berkshire, England
Lloc de defunció
Andover, Hampshire, England
Llocs de residència
St Mary Bourne, Hampshire, England
London, England
Educació
Cambridge University (teaching diploma)
Cresham College
University of London (chancellor's diploma in literature|1910|BA|modern languages|1912)
Professions
teacher
internationalist
pacifist
critic
historian
biographer
Relacions
Hudson, William Henry (mentor)
Organitzacions
Society of Friends
St Katharine's College Practising School (teacher|1907)
Wycombe House School, Brondesbury (teacher|1910)
Jersey Ladies College (teacher|1911)
Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (1915-1916)
Serbian Relief Fund (1917) (mostra-les totes 10)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (full-time London office secretary|1919-1922|board member|London secretary|London vice-chair|1927-1934|chair|1934|international co-chair|1937-1945)
League of Nations Union
Union of Democratic Control (part time paid officer)
Society of Friends' Peace Committee (secretary|1926-1936)
Premis i honors
Gilchrist Medal
Churton Collins Memorial Prize
Order of St Sava (Serbia|relief work)
Biografia breu
Kathleen E. Innes, née Royds, was born to a wealthy Quaker family in Reading, England. In 1895, the family moved to St. Mary Bourne, a village in Hampshire with Roman and Saxon roots, which sparked her interest in local history. She spent her childhood roaming the area, reading books from her father's library, and was not expected to have a career except marriage. However, she passed the Cambridge entrance examinations and became the first woman in her family to obtain a university education. In 1907, she began teaching at St. Katharine's College Practising School to complete her one-year practicum requirement and graduated with her teachers diploma from Cambridge University. She began teaching at Wycombe House School in Brondesbury in 1910. Unable to obtain a higher degree because of Cambridge's restriction on women, she got a chancellor's diploma in literature from London University. As valedictorian of her class, she received both the Gilchrist Medal and the Churton Collins Memorial Prize. In 1911, she published a biography and critical analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge and His Poetry. The following year, she published Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Poetry. While still working and publishing, she continued her studies and in 1912, after a grueling examination in English and German literature and language, she earned a BA degree in modern languages. She then began teaching in private girls' high schools as well as the Jersey Ladies College. In 1915, she left her teaching post to assist with relief efforts for refugees both in continental Europe and in the UK. The war caused her to turn toward pacifism, and she worked for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the League of Nations Union (LNU). In 1921, she married George Alexander Innes, a fellow relief worker whom she had met in Salonika, Greece. She wrote books such as The Story of the League of Nations (1925) and The Story of Nansen and the League (1932). In 1927, Innes was elected vice chair of the London WILPF and remained in that position until she became chair in 1934. In 1937, she became one of the three joint co-chairs of the international WILPF, along with Gertrud Baer (1890-1981) and Clara Ragaz. She published book reviews, biographies, and articles in a variety of Quaker journals. During World War II, she moved back to Hampshire; after the war she published local histories and some Biblical stories.

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