The WSPU Holloway Banner is a suffragette banner designed by Scottish artist Ann Macbeth.[1][2][3][4]
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Origin
The banner consists of 80 pieces of linen, each embroidered with the signatures of those women who had participated in hunger strikes in support of the cause of women's suffrage. The pieces are bordered by green and purple.[5] Along the top is embroidered "Women's Social and Political Union" in the Art Nouveau style. Also at the top are the names of some leaders of the women's suffrage movement, Annie Kenney, Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst.
The banner was originally designed as a friendship quilt,[6] and converted into a banner with the addition of carrying poles.[7] It was donated by Macbeth to a bazaar held by the W.S.P.U. at Charing Cross Halls in Glasgow on 28 April 1910.[2] It was bought for £10 by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence.[8]
The banner was carried in the 'From Prison to Citizenship' procession held in June 1910.
Women named on banner
The names of Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Annie Kenney appear at the tip of the banner around the letters of WSPU.[9]
| Lucy Burns[6] | Constance Craig or Bray[a] | Jane Warton[11][b] | Jane Esdon Malloch Brailsford |
| Mabel Kirby | Dora Marsden | Georgina Healiss | Leslie Hall[c] |
| Ellen Pitfield[6] | Florence Clarkson | Mabel Capper | Hannah Shepherd |
| Agnes Corson | Margaret West | Dorothy Pethick | Edith Hudson |
| Kitty Marion[6] | Helen Tolson[6] | Helen Gordon Liddel | Alice Hawkins |
| Mary Leigh | Sarah Carwin[6] | Elsie Roe-Brown | Bertha Brewster |
| Jessie Lawes | [illegible] | Selina Martin | Lillian Dove-Willcox |
| Violet Mary Jones | Grace Cameron-Swan | Adela Pankhurst[6] | Kathleen Brown |
| Fanny Halliwell | Winifred Jones | Theresa Garnett | Nellie Godfrey |
| Helen Archdale | EE Hesmondhalgh[6] | Vera Wentworth[11] | Nora Dunlop |
| Ellen Barnwell | Eugenie Bouvier | Charlotte Marsh | Lillian Norbury |
| Lilgard Atheling | Elsie Howey[11] | Mary Phillips[6] | G Holtwhite Simmons |
| Ethel Slade | Catherine Worthington | Helen Kirkpatrick Watts | Maud Joachim |
| Ada Wright | Violet O'Brien | Rona Robinson | Florence Spong |
| Kathleen Jarvis | Nellie Crocker | Dorothy Shallard | Edith Davies |
| Elsie Mackenzie | Edith New[6] | Alice Paul[6] | Emily Wilding Davison[11] |
| Isabel Kelley | Caro Bray Jolly | Florence Cook | Catherine Tolson[6] |
| Marion Wallace Dunlop[6] | Rosamund Massy | Laura Ainsworth | Violet Bryant |
| Gladys Roberts | Edith Rigby[6] | Jenny Baines[d] | Helen Burkitt |
| Mary Allen | Ellen Pitman | Annie Bell | Grace Chappelow |
- ^ Possibly Constance Bryer or Constance Lytton
- ^ Jane Warton was Lady Constance Lytton's pseudonym
- ^ Leslie Hall was Letitia Withall's pseudonym
- ^ Jenny Baines was Sarah Jane Baines' pseudonym
See also
Image of banner at Museum of London: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/91239.html
References
- ^ Archives, Glasgow School of Art; Collections (8 March 2013). "Celebrating International Women's Day". GSA Archives and Collections. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ a b Helland, Janice (2020). ""From Prison to Citizenship," 1910: The Making and Display of a Suffragist Bannner". In Amos, Johanna; Binkley, Lisa (eds.). Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts. Bloomsbury, London. pp. 97–109. ISBN 978-1-3502-4241-8. OCLC 1137838896.
- ^ Suffrage and the arts : visual culture, politics and enterprise. Garrett, Miranda,, Thomas, Zoë. London. 20 September 2018. ISBN 978-1-350-01186-1. OCLC 982532870.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Crawford, Elizabeth. (1999). The women's suffrage movement : a reference guide, 1866-1928. London: UCL Press. ISBN 0-203-03109-1. OCLC 53836882.
- ^ Willem. "WSPU Holloway Banner". trc-leiden.nl. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "The London Library Magazine Autumn 2018 - Issue 41". Issuu. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "From Prison to Citizenship · The Suffrage Postcard Project". thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Museum of London | Free museum in London". collections.museumoflondon.org.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Helland 2020, p. 98.
- ^ Helland 2020, p. 99.
- ^ a b c d "The Hollowayettes - Museum of London". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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