Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charlotte Despard (née French) NPG 4345

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Charles Mendelssohn Horsfall

Charlotte Despard was a suffragette and social worker who was drawn to the women’s movement through her philanthropic work with vulnerable women and children. Working in the slums of Battersea, London, she founded clinics, social clubs and a soup kitchen. Despard was originally allied to the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), but soon became the leader of a breakaway organisation, the Women’s Freedom League. Their tactics were non-violent but spectacular, including the incident in the Ladies’ Gallery of the House of Commons, where... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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