https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Famous_British_Authors_Defend_England%27s_WarFamous British Authors Defend England's War - Revision history2026-06-04T12:47:45ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Famous_British_Authors_Defend_England%27s_War&diff=58714&oldid=prevTCDE-Team at 08:16, 18 June 20172017-06-18T08:16:35Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><br />
''Famous British Authors Defend England's War'' is an article published in [[The New-York Times]] on 14 october 1914.<br />
<br />
[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was among the 43 British writers who signed a petition for England to take part to the First World War.<br />
<br />
His signature is the third in column 2.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Famous British Authors Defend England's War ==<br />
<br />
'''Fifty-three of the Best-Known Writers of the Empire Sign a Vigorous Document Saying That Great Britain Could Not Have Refused to Join the War Without Dishonor.'''<br />
<br />
[[File:the-new-york-times-1914-10-14-part5-p5-famous-british-authors-defend-england-s-war.jpg|thumb|770px|center|[[The New-York Times]] (14 october 1914, section 5, p. 5)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Who's Who Among the Signers'''<br />
<br />
* William Archer<br />
* K. Granville Barker<br />
* [[J. M. Barrie|Sir James Matthew Barrie]]<br />
* Hilaire Belloc<br />
* Arnold Bennett<br />
* Arthur Christopher Benson<br />
* Edward Frederic Benson<br />
* Very Rev. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson<br />
* Lawrence Binyon<br />
* Andrew Cecil Bradley<br />
* Robert Bridges<br />
* Hall Caine<br />
* R. C. Carton<br />
* Charles Haddon Chambers<br />
* Gilbert K. Chesterton<br />
* Hubert Henry Davies<br />
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], creator of "[[Sherlock Holmes]]".<br />
* Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher<br />
* John Galsworthy<br />
* Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey)<br />
* Sir Henry Rider Haggard<br />
* Thomas Hardy<br />
* Jane Ellen Harrison<br />
* Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope)<br />
* Maurice Hewlett<br />
* Robert Hickens<br />
* [[Jerome K. Jerome]]<br />
* Henry Arthur Jones<br />
* Rudyard Kipling<br />
* William J. Locke<br />
* Edward Verral Lucas<br />
* John William Mackail<br />
* John Masefield<br />
* Alfred Edward Woodley<br />
* Gilbert Murray<br />
* Henry Newbolt<br />
* Barry Pain<br />
* Sir Gilbert Parker<br />
* Eden Phillpotts<br />
* Sir Arthur Wing Pinero<br />
* Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch<br />
* Sir Owen Seaman<br />
* George R. Sims<br />
* May Sinclair<br />
* Flora Annie Steel<br />
* Alfred Sutro<br />
* George Macaulay Trevelyan<br />
* Rt. Hon. George Otto Trevelyan<br />
* Humphry Ward<br />
* Mary A. Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward)<br />
* H. G. Wells<br />
* Margaret L. Woods<br />
* Israel Zangwill<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Back to Conan Doyle]]</div>TCDE-Team