Helena Swanwick
Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick CH | |
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Helena Swanwick, taken at a debate between suffragists and anti-suffragists in October 1909 | |
| Born | Helena Maria Lucy Sickert 30 January 1864 |
| Died | 16 November 1939 (aged 75) Maidenhead, Berkshire, England |
| Other names | Helena Sickert |
| Education | Notting Hill High School |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Employer(s) | Westfield College, Machester Guardian, The Common Cause |
| Organization(s) | Women's Social and Political Union, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Union of Democratic Control, The Women's Peace Crusade, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Institute of International Affairs |
| Known for | suffragist, pacifist and writer |
| Political party | Labour Party (UK) |
| Spouse | Frederick Swanwick (m. 1888) |
| Father | Oswald Sickert |
| Relatives | Richard Sheepshanks (maternal grandfather), Walter Sickert (brother) |
| Awards | Order of the Companions of Honour |
Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick CH (née Sickert; 30 January 1864 – 16 November 1939) was a Bavarian-born British suffragist, pacifist, internationalist and writer. Her autobiography, I Have Been Young (1935), gives an account of the non-militant women's suffrage campaign in the UK and of anti-war campaigning during the First World War, together with philosophical discussions of non-violence.
Swanwick's name and picture, along with 58 other women's suffrage supporters, are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in April 2018.