Margaret Scott (Margaret Gertrude Schencke) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margaret Scott (Margaret Gertrude Schencke) NPG x45549

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Criminal Record Office

Scott left Germany for England and soon became involved with the suffragette movement, selling The Suffragette newspaper on Hyde Park Corner. She was arrested after sharing her plans to smash windows of the Home Office windows with two women, who turned out to be undercover informants for Scotland Yard, and spent a month in prison. She gave the name Margaret Scott to the authorities to avoid deportation back to Germany. During her sentence at Holloway Prison, Scott's photo was taken without her consent by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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