The WSPU signatures' banner in 1910

The WSPU Holloway Banner is a suffragette banner designed by Scottish artist Ann Macbeth.[1][2][3][4]

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]

Names as they appear on the banner[10]
Lucy Burns[6]Constance Craig or Bray[lower-alpha 1]Jane Warton[11][lower-alpha 2]Jane Esdon Malloch Brailsford
Mabel KirbyDora MarsdenGeorgina HealissLeslie Hall[lower-alpha 3]
Ellen Pitfield[6]Florence ClarksonMabel CapperHannah Shepherd
Agnes CorsonMargaret WestDorothy PethickEdith Hudson
Kitty Marion[6]Helen Tolson[6]Helen Gordon LiddelAlice Hawkins
Mary LeighSarah Carwin[6]Elsie Roe-BrownBertha Brewster
Jessie Lawes[illegible]Selina MartinLillian Dove-Willcox
Violet Mary JonesGrace Cameron-SwanAdela Pankhurst[6]Kathleen Brown
Fanny HalliwellWinifred JonesTheresa GarnettNellie Godfrey
Helen ArchdaleEE Hesmondhalgh[6]Vera Wentworth[11]Nora Dunlop
Ellen BarnwellEugenie BouvierCharlotte MarshLillian Norbury
Lilgard AthelingElsie Howey[11]Mary Phillips[6]G Holtwhite Simmons
Ethel SladeCatherine WorthingtonHelen Kirkpatrick WattsMaud Joachim
Ada WrightViolet O'BrienRona RobinsonFlorence Spong
Kathleen JarvisNellie CrockerDorothy ShallardEdith Davies
Elsie MackenzieEdith New[6]Alice Paul[6]Emily Wilding Davison[11]
Isabel KelleyCaro Bray JollyFlorence CookCatherine Tolson[6]
Marion Wallace Dunlop[6]Rosamund MassyLaura AinsworthViolet Bryant
Gladys RobertsEdith Rigby[6]Jenny Baines[lower-alpha 4]Helen Burkitt
Mary AllenEllen PitmanAnnie BellGrace Chappelow
  1. ↑ Possibly Constance Bryer or Constance Lytton
  2. ↑ Jane Warton was Lady Constance Lytton's pseudonym
  3. ↑ Leslie Hall was Letitia Withall's pseudonym
  4. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ Archives, Glasgow School of Art; Collections (8 March 2013). "Celebrating International Women's Day". GSA Archives and Collections. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ Crawford, Elizabeth. (1999). The women's suffrage movement : a reference guide, 1866-1928. London: UCL Press. ISBN 0-203-03109-1. OCLC 53836882.
  5. ↑ Willem. "WSPU Holloway Banner". trc-leiden.nl. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "The London Library Magazine Autumn 2018 - Issue 41". Issuu. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "From Prison to Citizenship · The Suffrage Postcard Project". thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Museum of London | Free museum in London". collections.museumoflondon.org.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  9. ↑ Heland 2020, p. 98.
  10. ↑ Heland 2020, p. 99.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "The Hollowayettes - Museum of London". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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