Marie Naylor
Marie Naylor | |
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Born | 1856 London |
Died | 1940 Richmond |
Cause of death | Air raid |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Other names | Mary Jane |
Occupation | Artist |
Known for | militant suffragette |
Marie Naylor (1856 – 1940) was a British artist and militant suffragette .
Life[]
Naylor was born in London 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.[1] She studied in Paris and exhibited in various exhibitions and she had a one-woman exhibition at Galerie Dosbourg in 1898[2] before returning to the UK where she took an interest in women's suffrage.[3]
In 1907 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union. In February 1908 she was one of several suffragette including Vera Wentworth and the Brackenbury sisters who were arrested for the .[3] This WSPU stunt was to drop off a large group of women from a removal van (a pantechnicon) so that they could storm the House of Commons.
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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".[4]
Naylor died in Richmond in 1940 after an air raid.
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References[]
- ^ PamelaGerrish Nunn (5 July 2017). Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting. Taylor & Francis. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-351-55314-8.
- ^ "Marie Naylor". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ a b Elizabeth Crawford (2001). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Psychology Press. pp. 442–. ISBN 978-0-415-23926-4.
- ^ "Suffragette Marie Naylor planting tree with Mary Blathwayt 1910, Blathwayt, Col Linley". Bath in Time, Images of Bath online. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- 1850 births
- 1940 deaths
- 19th-century British women artists
- 20th-century British women artists
- Artists from London
- British women's rights activists
- English suffragists
- Eagle House suffragettes
- British civilians killed in World War II
- Deaths by airstrike during World War II