Alice Lewis
Alice Marie Drakoules (née Lambe; other married name Lewis; c. 1850 – 15 January 1933) was a British social reformer, humanitarian, and writer. She worked in animal welfare, anti-vivisection, and vegetarianism campaigns. Around 1887 she founded a Band of Mercy, and in 1891 she helped found the Humanitarian League, serving as its honorary treasurer until the organisation dissolved in 1919. She was also associated with the Vegetarian Society, the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, and the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports.
Drakoules published in The Women's Penny Paper and The Vegetarian, including the essays "The Rights of the Non-Human Races" (1889) and "The Ethics of Diet" (1892). She also published the pamphlet Humanity and Vegetarianism in 1892. Her writings criticised meat production and vivisection, and connected moral reform, including women's emancipation, with "pity and mercy". With her second husband, the Greek reformer Platon Drakoules, she promoted humanitarian and dietary reform in southern Europe and represented Greece at the third World Vegetarian Congress in 1910. Historian Hilda Kean describes her as a "spiritual mother" of the British humanitarian movement. She was later commemorated with a memorial birdbath in St John's Wood churchyard.
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