Margaret McFarlane Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margaret McFarlane NPG x45551

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Criminal Record Office

As the secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Dundee and East Fife, McFarlane took a militant approach to campaigning for women's suffrage, declaring that she would 'prefer to agitate in a way that will be successful. If it means six months or six years, I prefer to go on'. McFarlane was arrested for smashing windows during demonstrations against the defeated Conciliation Bill of 1912. Like many other suffragettes, McFarlane was forcibly fed and later recounted her ordeal: 'When they found... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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