Famous British Authors Defend England's War
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Famous British Authors Defend England's War is an article published in The New-York Times on 14 october 1914.
Arthur Conan Doyle was among the 43 British writers who signed a petition for England to take part to the First World War.
His signature is the third in column 2.
Famous British Authors Defend England's War
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.
Who's Who Among the Signers
- William Archer
- K. Granville Barker
- Sir James Matthew Barrie
- Hilaire Belloc
- Arnold Bennett
- Arthur Christopher Benson
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Very Rev. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
- Lawrence Binyon
- Andrew Cecil Bradley
- Robert Bridges
- Hall Caine
- R. C. Carton
- Charles Haddon Chambers
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Hubert Henry Davies
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of "Sherlock Holmes".
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- John Galsworthy
- Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey)
- Sir Henry Rider Haggard
- Thomas Hardy
- Jane Ellen Harrison
- Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope)
- Maurice Hewlett
- Robert Hickens
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Henry Arthur Jones
- Rudyard Kipling
- William J. Locke
- Edward Verral Lucas
- John William Mackail
- John Masefield
- Alfred Edward Woodley
- Gilbert Murray
- Henry Newbolt
- Barry Pain
- Sir Gilbert Parker
- Eden Phillpotts
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Sir Owen Seaman
- George R. Sims
- May Sinclair
- Flora Annie Steel
- Alfred Sutro
- George Macaulay Trevelyan
- Rt. Hon. George Otto Trevelyan
- Humphry Ward
- Mary A. Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward)
- H. G. Wells
- Margaret L. Woods
- Israel Zangwill
