The Open Christmas Letter was a public message for peace addressed "To the Women of Germany and Austria",[1] signed by a group of 101 British suffragists[2] at the end of 1914 as the first Christmas of the First World War approached. The Open Christmas Letter was written in acknowledgment of the mounting horror of modern war and as a direct response to letters written to American feminist Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), by a small group of German women's rights activists. Published in January 1915 in Jus Suffragii, the journal of the IWSA, the Open Christmas Letter was answered two months later by a group of 155 prominent German and Austrian women who were pacifists. The exchange of letters between women of nations at war helped promote the aims of peace, and helped prevent the fracturing of the unity which lay in the common goal they shared, suffrage for women.
Emily Hobhouse authored the Open Christmas Letter and circulated it for signatures.
^Oldfield, 2003, p. 46.
^Patterson, 2008, p. 52
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