Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edith How-Martyn NPG x137847

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Ridsdale Cleare

Edith How-Martyn became the first woman associate of the Royal College of Science and a committed advocate of birth control. She recalled that as a child she had '.. resented the difference made between boys and girls, and the greater amount of liberty allowed to the former'. Believing passive resistance was more effective than the militant approach of the Women's Social and Political Union, she left the WSPU to found the Women's Freedom League with Teresa Billington-Greig and Charlotte Despard. In 1910 her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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