From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muriel Lester
Muriel Lester
Lesters’ foundation at Bow. There is a blue plaque to
the Lester sisters on the cottage, no.49 Baldwins Hill,
Loughton, which they acquired after The Grange and
Rachel Cottage were sold for flats. This second cottage
had previously been occupied by Sir Jacob Epstein.
During the Spanish Civil War Muriel Lester was an ac-
tive pacifist. She is pictured at a pacifist conference in
1936, standing fourth from the left of the photograph,
in the Wikipedia entry for José Brocca. In his book White
Corpuscles in Europe (1939) the American writer Allan A.
Hunter viewed the close of the Spanish Civil War and
the opening of World War II from across the Atlantic,
and despite the desolate outlook in Europe saw some
grounds for optimism in the work of humanitarians in-
cluding Muriel Lester.
Muriel Lester retired from full-time work in 1958 and
in 1963 she became a Freeman of the Borough of Poplar
on her eightieth birthday. The Muriel Lester Cooperative
House at the University of Michigan is named after her.
Family
Lester is the aunt of George Hogg, the two travelled to-
gether to Japan in 1937, from where Hogg contineud to
Shanghai and later the Chinese hinterlands, he suibse-
quently became famous for saving 60 orphaned boys
marching them 1,100km to safety.[1] They continued
their trip to Japan.
Muriel lester References
[1] MacManus, James (2008-03-09). "The heroic
Muriel Lester (December 1885–11 February 1968) was
Englishman China will never forget". The Sunday
born in Leytonstone in east London and grew up at
Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/
Loughton, where she was a member of the Union Church.
tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/
She was a social reformer, pacifist and nonconformist. As
book_extracts/article3510793.ece. Retrieved
a Baptist, she was baptized in 1898, at 15. In Loughton,
2009-09-20.
she lived with her parents at The Grange, and afterwards
• Ambassador of Reconciliation. A Muriel Lester Reader,
acquired a wooden house, Rose Cottage, which she re-
edited by Richard Deats, Santa Cruz (CA), New
named Rachel Cottage, and used as a holiday home for
Society Publishers, 1991.
East-end children.
• Jill Wallis, Mother of World Peace. The life of Muriel
She was responsible, along with her sister Doris
Lester, Hisarlik Press, 1993. ISBN 1-874312-15-X
Lester, for Kingsley Hall, named after her brother who
• Allan A. Hunter, (1939) White Corpuscles in Europe
died young, aged 26.
(foreword by Aldous Huxley), Chicago and New York,
In 1934 she became Ambassador-At-Large and after-
Willett, Clarke and Company, pp. 49–58.
wards Traveling Secretary for the International Fellow-
• Devi Prasad, (2005) War is a Crime Against Humanity
ship of Reconciliation.
(foreword by George Willoughby), London, War
Muriel accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on his tour of
Resisters’ International, ISBN 0-903517-20-5,
earthquake-shaken regions in Bihar on his anti-untouch-
pp. 89,522,523.
ability tour during 1934. He stayed at Kingsley Hall, the
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muriel Lester
• It Occurred to Me (Autobiography), Harper Brothers, Alternative names
1937
Short description
Date of birth 1885
External links Place of birth
• Quotes From Muriel Lester’s book Entertaining Date of death 1968
Gandhi
• http://www.muriellester.com/ Place of death
Persondata
Name Lester, Muriel
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