Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Mrs Pankhurst arrested in Victoria Street, February 13 1908' NPG x200694

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by The Photochrom Co Ltd

Leader of the militant wing of the suffragists' movement for the enfranchisement of women, Emmeline founded the Women's Social and Political Union with her eldest daughter Christabel in 1903. Another daughter, Sylvia, designed the members' card and painted the 'Votes for Women' banners. All of them were imprisoned in Holloway Prison on numerous occasions between 1908 and 1913, and released after hunger strikes. During the war Emmeline and Christabel observed the militants' truce. Partial enfranchisement came in 1918 to men aged twenty-one and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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