Call Number:

DG.016

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Hannah Clothier Hull Papers (DG 016), Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Date:

1889-1958 (inclusive)

Creator:

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935, Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin), Baber, Zonia, Baer, Gertrude, Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961, Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950, Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954, Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961, Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981, Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963, Elliot, Martha Helen, Fisher, Katharine Ward, Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970, Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943, Hommel, Dorothy O., Libby, Faith Ward, 1902-, Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944, Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936, Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960, Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947, Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973, Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948, Starr, Ellen Gates, Stockwell, Maud C., Surles, Flora Belle, 1887-1971?, Vernon, Mabel, Williams, Mary Wilhelmine, 1878-1944, Wold, Emma, 1871-1950, Woods, Amy, and Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

Abstract:

Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College. In the following year Hannah Clothier married William Isaac Hull, a fellow pacifist and professor of political science at Swarthmore. Hannah Clothier Hull worked in the woman suffrage campaign and women's rights, had some interest in temperance, was a member of the Friends Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was on the board of the American Friends Service Committee (1928-1947).

Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College. In the following year Hannah Clothier married William Isaac Hull, a fellow pacifist and professor of political science at Swarthmore.

From 1914 to 1919 Hannah Clothier Hull was the chairman of the Pennsylvania branch of the Woman's Peace Party. She became more involved with the national WILPF in 1922 when she attended an emergency International Conference of Women at The Hague. Hull served as an officer of the U.S. section of the WILPF from 1924 to 1939 and as the honorary president until her death in 1958. This work drew her into close association with Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Carrie Chapman Catt, and with peace leaders in all parts of the world.

Hull had many other interests apart from the peace movement. She worked in the woman suffrage campaign and women's rights, had some interest in temperance, was a member of the Friends Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was on the board of the American Friends Service Committee (1928-1947).

The Hannah Clothier Hull Papers contain personal correspondence (1889-1956), professional correspondence, speeches, articles, and manuscript notes. There is also biographical material, family papers, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Among Hull's early personal correspondence is a folder of letters she wrote to her friend Caroline Cooper Biddle. These letters chart the close friendship between the two young women at the turn of the century.

A large part of the collection reflects Hull's work in the peace movement. There is correspondence with other WILPF officers and members, financial statements, press releases, and documents of the League. A file documenting attacks on WILPF (1924-1937), is also included. Hull's interest in women's rights is represented by items on woman suffrage, correspondence on WILPF relations with the National Council of Women of the United States, and material on women's movements in China and India.

Among the many correspondents in this collection are Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Hamilton, Lida Gustava Heymann, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Lucia Ames Mead, Jeannette Rankin, Rosika Schwimmer, Anna Garlin Spencer, Ellen Gates Starr, and Mary E. Woolley.

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