Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer) NPG x103598

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Suffragette and birth control activist, Kitty Marion, left Germany as a teenager for the London stage and experienced first hand exploitation that was then endured by actresses. She joined the Actress Franchise League in 1909, often staging pro-suffragette plays and then joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Following her arrest for the arson attack at a racecourse with Clara Giveen, she was force fed a shocking 232 times before being released as part of the Cat and Mouse Act, as it... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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