Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ella Winter

Leonore (Ella) Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart (1898–1980) was an Australian-British journalist and activist. She was born in 1898 to Freda Lust and Adolph Wertheimer in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1924 she married Lincoln Steffens after which she then had a son and moved to the largest art colony on the Pacific Coast, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The Steffenses were instrumental in helping create The Carmelite, a new local paper. The Carmelite made a name for its alternative view on art and soon became one of California's most controversial publications. Within the paper, Ella wrote on various topics. Her and her family were also involved in controversial national campaigns, including the Scottsboro Boys Defense Fund which sought to free nine black men who were still incarcerated after the Supreme Court of the United States reversed their convictions for rape twice.