Allvega & Allvegan To Vegan
The 1944 creation of the word Vegan is usually credited to Dorothy and Donald Watson.
Dorothy & Donald Watson getting married.
However, in the Vegan News, February 1945 edition, Donald Watson says that two of the Vegan Society’s original members (founding members), Fay Keeling Henderson and G. Allan Henderson, were the source of the idea for the word Vegan.
~ Before the appearance of the first issue, Mr and Mrs G. A. Henderson suggested the name Allvega, with Allvegan as the magazine title. It was from this that the word Vegan was taken,…… ~
Vegan News, No.2, February 1945 – page 2
The Hendersons ran the UK’s first vegan guest house in Ambleside, Westmorland.
Fay & Allan in the Autumn 1949 issue of The Vegan – source.
The vegan guest house of Fay & Allan. An advertisement in the Autumn 1949 issue of The Vegan.
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Links / Notes
1) Much more about Fay and Allan & 1940s veganism – here.
2) ‘the first issue’ = Vegan News, No.1, November 1944 – read the original – here.
3) Vegan News, No.2, February 1945 newsletter – here.
4) This topic is discussed more in an essay by Samantha Calvert – this link – goes to the .pdf file.
5) The suffix ‘…vega’ in Allvega and Allvegan very probably came from Vega, the London UK restaurant of Jenny & Walter Fliess – discussed here – you must scroll down to find the section.
2 Comments
John Edmundson (6 comments)
July 1, 2016 at 12:30 amFacebook Glitch today!
Scott – think capital ‘V’ – joined with the word ‘began’.
This is how Harry Mather explained it to me in about 1983.
Harry knew the Hendersons & most of the other original vegans.
http://www.veganviews.org.uk/harrymather.html
scocasso (1 comments)
July 1, 2016 at 9:46 am“Scott – think capital ‘V’ – joined with the word ‘began’.
This is how Harry Mather explained it to me in about 1983.
Harry knew the Hendersons & most of the other original vegans.”
— ha ha, Harry and the Hendersons.
The word ‘began’ is correctly pronounced ‘beh-gan’.
Anyway, we should all just stop saying “vee-gan”, simply because it doesn’t sound good, and because anyone reading the word for the first time on paper would say “veh-gan”.