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{{Short description|Armenian women's rights and peace activist}}
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'''Lucy Thoumaian''' or '''Rossier de Visme''' (1890 – 1940) was an [[Armenia|Armenian]] woman's rights and peace activist. Driven out of Armenia she helped create a school in [[Chigwell]] for orphaned Armenians. She published a manifesto for peace before she attended the [[Women at the Hague]] conference in 1915. Afterwords, she began working for the [[League of Nations]].
'''Lucy Thoumaian''' or '''Rossier de Visme''' ({{lang-hy|Լյուսի Թումայան}}; 1890 – 1940) was an [[Armenia]]n woman's rights and peace activist. Driven out of Armenia she helped create a school in [[Chigwell]] for orphaned Armenians. She published a manifesto for peace before she attended the [[Women at the Hague]] conference in 1915. Afterwards, she began working for the [[League of Nations]].


==Life==
==Life==
Thoumaian was born in [[Switzerland]] with the name Rossier de Visme.
Thoumaian was born in [[Switzerland]] with the name Rossier de Visme.<ref name=":0"/>
[[File:International Congress of Women1915 (22785230005).jpg|thumb|320px|left|[[Women at the Hague|International Congress of Women in 1915]]. left to right:1. [[:en:Lucy Thoumaian|Lucy Thoumaian]] - Armenia, 2. [[:en:Leopoldine Kulka| Leopoldine Kulka]], 3. [[:en:Laura Hughes|Laura Hughes]] - Canada, 4. [[:en:Rosika Schwimmer|Rosika Schwimmer]] - Hungary, 5. [[:en:Anita Augspurg|Anika Augspurg]] - Germany, 6. Jane Addams - USA, 7. [[:en:Eugenie Hamer|Eugenie Hanner]], 8. [[:en:Aletta Jacobs|Aletta Jacobs]] - Netherlands, 9. [[:en:Chrystal Macmillan|Chrystal Macmillan]] - UK, 10. [[:en:Rosa Genoni|Rosa Genoni]] - Italy, 11. [[:en:Anna Kleman|Anna Kleman]] - Sweden, 12. [[:en:Thora Daugaard|Thora Daugaard]] - Denmark, 13. [[:en:Louisa Keilhau|Louise Keilhau]] - Norway]]
[[File:International Congress of Women1915 (22785230005).jpg|thumb|320px|left|[[Women at the Hague|International Congress of Women in 1915]]. left to right:1. [[:en:Lucy Thoumaian|Lucy Thoumaian]] - Armenia, 2. [[:en:Leopoldine Kulka|Leopoldine Kulka]] - Austria, 3. [[:en:Laura Hughes (activist)|Laura Hughes]] - Canada, 4. [[:en:Rosika Schwimmer|Rosika Schwimmer]] - Hungary, 5. [[:en:Anita Augspurg|Anika Augspurg]] - Germany, 6. [[:en:Jane Addams|Jane Addams]] - USA, 7. [[:en:Eugenie Hamer|Eugenie Hanner]], 8. [[:en:Aletta Jacobs|Aletta Jacobs]] - Netherlands, 9. [[:en:Chrystal Macmillan|Chrystal Macmillan]] - UK, 10. [[:en:Rosa Genoni|Rosa Genoni]] - Italy, 11. [[:en:Anna Kleman|Anna Kleman]] - Sweden, 12. [[:en:Thora Daugaard|Thora Daugaard]] - Denmark, 13. [[:en:Louisa Keilhau|Louise Keilhau]] - Norway]]
She and her husband Reverend Professor Garabed Thoumanian were driven out of Armenia and they became exiles in Britain. There they organised an orphanage and school at Oakhurst<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol4/pp38-41#fnn96|title=Chigwell: Schools {{!}} British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-11-02}}</ref> in [[Chigwell]] for Armenians in 1906.<ref name=wilpf>http://wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lucy-Engl.pdf</ref>
She and her husband Reverend Professor Garabed Thoumanian were driven out of Armenia and they became exiles in Britain. There, they organised an orphanage and school at Oakhurst<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol4/pp38-41#fnn96|title=Chigwell: Schools {{!}} British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref> in [[Chigwell]] for Armenians in 1906.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lucy-Engl.pdf|title=1. Lucy Thoumaian 1890 – 1940|website=WILPF - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref>


In 1911 she attended the [[First Universal Races Congress]] in London which was an early attempt at anti-racism. Despite being an exile from the Ottoman empire she had embraced the Turkish delegates as a symbol of the need to work togther.<ref name="MoynaghForestell2012">{{cite book|author1=Maureen Moynagh|author2=Nancy Forestell|title=Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5_47lZOMHQC&pg=PT397|date=14 January 2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-6410-4|pages=397–}}</ref>
In 1911, she attended the [[First Universal Races Congress]] in London which was an early attempt at anti-racism. Despite being an exile from the Ottoman Empire she had embraced the Turkish delegates as a symbol of the need to work together.<ref name="MoynaghForestell2012">{{cite book|author1=Maureen Moynagh|author2=Nancy Forestell|title=Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5_47lZOMHQC&pg=PT397|date=14 January 2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-6410-4|pages=397–}}</ref>


In 1914 she published a manifesto for peace whose theme was "War is man-made, it must be woman undone". She proposed that women should have weekly meetings until the dispute that caused the war was resolved.<ref name="Liddington1989">{{cite book|author=Jill Liddington|title=The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-militarism in Britain Since 1820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VWEjQu6rv8C&pg=PA91|year=1989|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2539-1|pages=91–}}</ref>
In 1914, she published a manifesto for peace whose theme was "War is man-made, it must be woman undone". She proposed that women should have weekly meetings until the dispute that caused the war was resolved.<ref name="Liddington1989">{{cite book|author=Jill Liddington|title=The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-militarism in Britain Since 1820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VWEjQu6rv8C&pg=PA91|year=1989|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2539-1|pages=91–}}</ref>


In 1915 Thoumaian traveled to [[The Hague]] where she represented Armenia at the [[Women at the Hague]] conference. She arrived at the conference on the 25 April 1915. The day before the [[Armenian Genocide]] started when hundreds of intellectuals were arrested in Armenia.<ref>{{cite book
In 1915, Thoumaian traveled to [[The Hague]] where she represented Armenia at the [[Women at the Hague]] conference. She arrived at the conference on the 25 April 1915. The day before the [[Armenian genocide]] started when hundreds of intellectuals were arrested in Armenia.<ref>{{cite book
|first=Arshavir|last=Shirakian|authorlink=Arshavir Shirakian|others=translated by Shirakian, Sonia|title=Կտակն էր Նահատակներուն [Gdagn er Nahadagnerin]|trans_title=The legacy: Memoirs of an Armenian Patriot|publisher=[[Hairenik Association|Hairenik Press]]|location=Boston|year=1976|oclc=4836363}}</ref>
|first=Arshavir|last=Shirakian|authorlink=Arshavir Shirakian|others=translated by Shirakian, Sonia|title=Կտակն էր Նահատակներուն [Gdagn er Nahadagnerin]|trans-title=The legacy: Memoirs of an Armenian Patriot|publisher=[[Hairenik Association|Hairenik Press]]|location=Boston|year=1976|oclc=4836363}}</ref>


Thomanian was on the main panel at the conference. After the conference she stayed in the Netherlands until November. She was busy circulating material and she was desperate to get information on 30 relatives she last saw in Marsovan in Armenia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lucy-Engl.pdf|title=Lucy Thoumaian|last=|first=|date=|website=WILPF|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref>
Thomanian was on the main panel at the conference. After the conference, she stayed in the Netherlands until November. She was busy circulating material, and she was desperate to get information on 30 relatives she last saw in Marsovan in Armenia.<ref name=":0"/>


After the war ended she was pushed forward by the WILPF to work for a League of Nations commission. She continued to work for justices for the victims of the genocide in Armenia.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F27837|title=The Discovery Service|last=Archives|first=The National|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-11-02}}</ref>
After the war ended, she was pushed forward by the WILPF to work for a League of Nations commission. She continued to work for justices for the victims of the genocide in Armenia.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F27837|title=The Discovery Service|last=Archives|first=The National|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref>


Thoumaian died in the [[United States of America]] in 1940.<ref name=wilpf/><ref name=":0" />
Thoumaian died in the [[United States of America]] in 1940.<ref name=":0" />


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Latest revision as of 01:50, 7 May 2023

Lucy Thoumaian
Born
Rossier de Visme

1890
Switzerland
Died1940
United States of America
NationalityArmenian
Known forPacifism, women's rights
SpouseRev. Prof. Thoumaian

Lucy Thoumaian or Rossier de Visme (Armenian: Լյուսի Թումայան; 1890 – 1940) was an Armenian woman's rights and peace activist. Driven out of Armenia she helped create a school in Chigwell for orphaned Armenians. She published a manifesto for peace before she attended the Women at the Hague conference in 1915. Afterwards, she began working for the League of Nations.

Life[edit]

Thoumaian was born in Switzerland with the name Rossier de Visme.[1]

International Congress of Women in 1915. left to right:1. Lucy Thoumaian - Armenia, 2. Leopoldine Kulka - Austria, 3. Laura Hughes - Canada, 4. Rosika Schwimmer - Hungary, 5. Anika Augspurg - Germany, 6. Jane Addams - USA, 7. Eugenie Hanner, 8. Aletta Jacobs - Netherlands, 9. Chrystal Macmillan - UK, 10. Rosa Genoni - Italy, 11. Anna Kleman - Sweden, 12. Thora Daugaard - Denmark, 13. Louise Keilhau - Norway

She and her husband Reverend Professor Garabed Thoumanian were driven out of Armenia and they became exiles in Britain. There, they organised an orphanage and school at Oakhurst[2] in Chigwell for Armenians in 1906.[1]

In 1911, she attended the First Universal Races Congress in London which was an early attempt at anti-racism. Despite being an exile from the Ottoman Empire she had embraced the Turkish delegates as a symbol of the need to work together.[3]

In 1914, she published a manifesto for peace whose theme was "War is man-made, it must be woman undone". She proposed that women should have weekly meetings until the dispute that caused the war was resolved.[4]

In 1915, Thoumaian traveled to The Hague where she represented Armenia at the Women at the Hague conference. She arrived at the conference on the 25 April 1915. The day before the Armenian genocide started when hundreds of intellectuals were arrested in Armenia.[5]

Thomanian was on the main panel at the conference. After the conference, she stayed in the Netherlands until November. She was busy circulating material, and she was desperate to get information on 30 relatives she last saw in Marsovan in Armenia.[1]

After the war ended, she was pushed forward by the WILPF to work for a League of Nations commission. She continued to work for justices for the victims of the genocide in Armenia.[1][6]

Thoumaian died in the United States of America in 1940.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "1. Lucy Thoumaian 1890 – 1940" (PDF). WILPF - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Chigwell: Schools | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  3. ^ Maureen Moynagh; Nancy Forestell (14 January 2012). Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents. University of Toronto Press. pp. 397–. ISBN 978-1-4426-6410-4.
  4. ^ Jill Liddington (1989). The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-militarism in Britain Since 1820. Syracuse University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-8156-2539-1.
  5. ^ Shirakian, Arshavir (1976). Կտակն էր Նահատակներուն [Gdagn er Nahadagnerin] [The legacy: Memoirs of an Armenian Patriot]. translated by Shirakian, Sonia. Boston: Hairenik Press. OCLC 4836363.
  6. ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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