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== Early life == After the death of her father, Edward Adderley Stopford, the family moved to London, where her cousin, Stopford Augustus Brooke, had built up a number of relationships with important intellectuals around London. Through him, Alice met her husband John Richard Green, they were married in June 1877. They were married until 1883, when he died due to an illness in his lungs. John was a well-respected and published English historian and during John and Alice’s marriage, she helped him write some of his publishing’s. As a result of her marriage to John and her cousin’s network, Alice met a lot of England’s leading historians and intellectuals of that era. She gained a reputation as an intellectual and robust conversationalist. After her husband’s death, her house became a meeting place for scholars, politicians as well as social and political activists. Londoners such as Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill visited her house. Her first work was published in 1888, a book titled "Henry the Second", she went on to have six more books published before her death. She also had many writings about women’s rights in newspapers like the Times, although she was one of the signees of the ‘Appeal against Women’s Suffrage's’. In the 1890s she started getting involved in political issues. During this time period Alice met the British explorer and scientific writer, Mary Kingsley, together they form the African Society. This society helped finance the setting up of the West African Mail, they also invited many African chiefs and elders to London. This and the publication of ‘the Journal of African Society’ sparked discussion on Africa and the British colonialism policies over there, especially in South Africa which both Alice and Mary were strongly opposed to. Through this work, Alice met Roger Casement. Casement wrote a letter to Green, he said that the West African desire for independence, particularly in Congo where Casement had worked and documented crimes against natives by the colonists, should appeal to every Irish person. It wasn’t just Casement who got her interested in Irish nationalism, her husband encourage her sympathies to the cause, also the rise of the Gaelic League. Her most influential work was ‘Irish Nationality’, published in 1911. It was said to be the most influential work in shaping the ‘mind’ of Ireland early on since Thomas Davis’ essays. According to the Yorkshire Post, in February 1911, Green was the most important Irish writer of that time period. In 1918, Green moved back to Ireland, she moved into a house on St. Stephens Green, again like her home in London, her home became an intellectual centre for scholars around Ireland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Stopford Green (Project)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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