Papers of Mary Sheepshanks 1953

Sheepshanks, Mary.

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Mary Sheepshanks was born in Liverpool in 1872, one of fourteen children. Her father, the Rev. Sheepshanks, was a Church of England vicar who, in 1890, became the Bishop of Norwich. She attended the Liverpool High School until she was seventeen and then was sent to Germany for a year before returning to attend Newnham College, Cambridge in 1892. On graduation, Sheepshanks became involved in social work in Southwark for the Women's University Settlement for two years. She continued t...

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...

Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958

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Women's University Settlement

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Morley College Waterloo England

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Women's International League

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International Woman Suffrage Association

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