Eleanor May Moore

For the American baseball player, see Eleanor Moore.

Eleanor May Moore (10 March 1875 – 1 October 1949) was an Australian pacifist. Moore was also a feminist.[1] She was involved in the peace movement as a member of the Sisterhood of International Peace (SIP), which later became part of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).[2]

She was born in Lancefield, Victoria.[3] She attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, where she edited the school paper and trained as a stenographer.[1] Moore's family were members of the Australian Church, founded by pacifist and preacher, Charles Strong.[1] After Strong formed the Sisterhood of International Peace (SIP) in 1915, Moore became joined, becoming the international secretary.[2] She represented the SIP in May 1919 at the International Women's Congress in Zurich.[2] Later, when the SIP became the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Moore continued working as the secretary and was involved in the group until her death.[2] Moore represented WILPF at the Pan-Pacific Union Women's conferences at Honolulu in 1928 and 1930.[2]

Moore was against using war to solve conflicts; she said: "I know that, however long the fight continues, in the end it must be settled by negotiation."[4] Moore chose not to marry and cared for her parents who lived to be 91 and 96.[1] She worked on a book, The Quest for Peace, finishing it in 1949.[2] Moore died in Toorak on 1 October 1949.[2]

References

1. Rivett, Kenneth (1993). "Quiet Dissenter: The Life and Thoughts of an Australian Pacifist, Eleanor May Moore, 1875-1949". Social Alternatives. 12 (3): 55–56. Retrieved 8 March 2016 – via EBSCO.
2. Colligan, Mimi; Suanders, Malcolm (1986). "Moore, Eleanor May (1875-1949)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
3. Stone, Caitlin (2014). "Moore, Eleanor May". The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Australian Women's Archives Project. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
4. Hamel-Green, Michael. "Women's Groups Opposition to Conscription". Australian Living Peace Museum. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2016.

External links

• Eleanor May Moore (photograph)