CarveHerName · @CarveHerName
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, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she had founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.

#literarywomen #europeanhistory #nobelwomen #womenpeaceactivists #womeninhistory #onthisday

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CarveHerName · @CarveHerName
2557 followers · 515 posts · Server mstdn.social

, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she had founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.

#literarywomen #europeanhistory #nobelwomen #womenpeaceactivists #womeninhistory #onthisday

Last updated 2 years ago