Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Bertha Baroness von Suttner
Standard Name: Suttner, Bertha,,, Baroness von
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1889: Bertha von Suttner published Die Waffen nieder...
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1889
Bertha von Suttner
published Die Waffen nieder (Lay down your Arms), a work which inspired Alfred Nobel
to establish his Peace Prize.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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10 December 1905: Bertha von Suttner was awarded the Nobel...
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10 December 1905
Bertha von Suttner
was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for her vocal critique of armament programmes and militarism in the anti-war novel Lay down your Arms.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
