Emily Hobhouse

 She is best known for her work during the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902)-[1]

·       She publicised the conditions of the concentration camps.

·       Distributed aid.

·       Initiated a home industry scheme.

·       Active in rehabilitation efforts.

·       Founded the South African women and Children Distress fund to collect money.

·       Set up homes to help rehabilitate the Boer families.

                                             

Her diary depicted the British through a different narrative. Hobhouse recalled the “scorched Earth” policy, which was the destruction of crops, slaughtering livestock, burning down of farms, and prevented Boers from resupplying themselves- this clearly depicts that the British did not civilise the state but rather went against basic human rights depriving people off their basis needs like food and animals. (Hobhouse,1902)[2]

Emily Hobhouse was an extraordinary woman, providing aid as a humanitarian activist with no discrimination- an inspiration to many other pacifists.

 

 

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[1] South African History Online (n.d.). Emily Hobhouse | South African History Online. [online] www.sahistory.org.za. Available at: https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/emily-hobhouse.

 

[2] Emily Hobhouse and University of Michigan (1902). The Brunt of the War, and where it Fell. [online] Internet Archive. Methuen & Co. Available at: https://archive.org/details/bruntwarandwher01hobhgoog/page/n142/mode/2up [Accessed 6 Jan. 2024].