Wendy-moore
Wendy Moore

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Wendy Moore

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

12:00pm

1 hour

Weston Lecture Theatre

£8 - £15

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Journalist and author Wendy Moore tells the story of two suffragettes who lived wild and brave lives together during World War I and beyond and were leading examples of the suffragette movement, women’s work in World War I and lesbian identity in the 20th century.

Vera Holme, known as Jack, was Emmeline Pankhurst’s chauffeur and mechanic and Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, daughter of a Scottish baron and 14 years older. They met and fell in love in 1908, lived together and became the public faces of the suffragette movement. Eve set up and ran hospitals in Serbia during the war while Jack drove ambulances. Moore explains how Jack and Eve carved radical new paths and demonstrated that women could do anything men did whilst refusing to compromise in their sexuality.

Moore is a freelance journalist and author of five non-fiction books on medical and social history including Wedlock.

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The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Critchleys Accountants to the festival Confucius Institute Voltaire Foundation Felicity Bryan Associates Goldmoney Properties Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Jim Mellon Miles Young Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Ian and Carol Sellars David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Yale University Press London New College New College founded 1379 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Pusey House Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 New Dutch Writing Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford University Images Oxford University Images CAV Oxford The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group The Oxford Times BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Conference Oxford Ox in a Box OX magazine