Art Resource - AR915569

Conceptually similar

Edith How-Martyn, c1909. Artist: Ridsdale Cleare

AR915572

AR915575

Emma Sproson (left) and a friend chalking the pavement, 1907.

AR915644

AR915548

AR915563

AR915545

AR915551

AR9404582

AR915590

Rose Lamartine Yates wearing the suffragette uniform, with her son Paul, Surrey, c1910.

AR915531

AR9404583

AR9404564

AR9404584

AR915587

Suffragettes making banners for the procession to Hyde Park on 23rd July 1910.

AR913975

AR9404590

AR915554

AR9404592

AR915787

AR915557

Charlotte Despard, c1909.

Charlotte Despard, activist and campaigner, c1909. Born in Edinburgh, Charlotte Despard was already a well-known feminist and social reformer by the time she joined the Women's Social and Political Union of which she became joint Honorary Secretary. In 1907 she also became Honorary Treasurer and President of the Women's Freedom League. She was famous for wearing sandals all year round, and always having a Spanish lace mantilla in her hair. She was widowed in 1890, and went to live in Nine Elms, Battersea, where she witnessed the unremitting poverty of working-class women's lives and their treatment by the local Poor Law Administration. As a member of the WSPU, Charlotte went to prison twice; the first sentence was three weeks in Holloway Gaol for leading the deputation from the First Women's Parliament in Caxton Hall to the House of Commons on 13 February 1907. Under her leadership the WFL encouraged its members to take part in non-violent resistance such as evading the Census of 1911, refusing to pay any taxes until women were given the vote, and wearing the League's official colours of green, white and gold. © London Museum/Heritage Images

Unique Identifier AR915569

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3237px × 5647px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

Add to lightbox

Add to cart