Marie Naylor
Marie Naylor | |
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| Born | 1856 London, England |
| Died | 1940 (aged 83–84) Richmond, England |
Cause of death | Air raid |
| Other name | Mary Jane |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Militant suffragette |
Marie Naylor (1856–1940) was a British artist and militant suffragette.[1]
Life
[edit]Naylor was born in London, England, in 1856. She studied art and had a self portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890, which was commented on by the Illustrated London News.[2]. In all, she exhibited six times at Royal Academy exhibitions, between the years 1886 and 1900. During this time she also studied in Paris, where she exhibited in various exhibitions, including a one-woman exhibition at Galerie Dosbourg in 1898[3] before returning to the UK where she took an interest in women's suffrage.[4]
In 1907, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), after previously belonging to the non-militant women's suffrage societies the National Union of Suffrage Societies and the Central Society for Women's Suffrage.[5] Emily Blathwayt described her as "one of their (WSPU) best London speakers."[3]
In February 1908, Naylor was one of several suffragettes, including Vera Wentworth and the sisters Georgiana Brackenbury and Marie Brackenbury, who were arrested for the Pantechnicon Raid.[4] This WSPU stunt was to drop off a large group of women from a removal van (a pantechnicon) so they could storm the House of Commons.
In 1909 and 1910 she stayed at Eagle House with Linley and Emily Blathwayt. On 9 April 1910 she was given the honour of planting a tree in "Annie's Arboretum".[6]
When Emmeline Pankhurst died on 14 June 1928, Naylor was one of her pallbearers, alongside other former suffragettes Georgiana Brackenbury, Marie Brackenbury, Marion Wallace Dunlop, Harriet Kerr, Mildred Mansel, Kitty Marshall, Rosamund Massy, Ada Wright and Barbara Wylie.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Dobbie, Beatrice Marion Willmott (1979). A Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset: Eagle House, Batheaston. The Society. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-9505390-1-0.
- ↑ Gerrish Nunn, Pamela (5 July 2017). Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting. Taylor & Francis. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-351-55314-8.
- 1 2 3 Simkin, John (October 2022) [September 1997]. "Marie Naylor". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- 1 2 Crawford, Elizabeth (2001). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866–1928. Psychology Press. pp. 442–. ISBN 978-0-415-23926-4.
- ↑ "Miss Marie Naylor". Women's Suffrage Resources. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ↑ "Suffragette Marie Naylor planting tree with Mary Blathwayt 1910, Blathwayt, Col Linley". Bath in Time, Images of Bath online. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ↑ Purvis, June (2 September 2003). Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-134-34191-7.
- ↑ Pugh, Martin (2008). The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family. Vintage. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-09-952043-6.
- 1850 births
- 1940 deaths
- 19th-century English women artists
- 20th-century English women artists
- Artists from London
- British civilians killed in World War II
- British women's rights activists
- Deaths by German airstrikes during World War II
- Eagle House suffragettes
- English suffragists
- Women's Social and Political Union