Winifred Raven Holiday
(1866-1949), Violinist and suffragetteSitter in 1 portrait
Holiday and her immediate family were involved in the women's suffragette movement and were close friends with Emmeline Pankhurst. The painter Henry Holiday was her father and often organised local suffragette meetings in the Lake District. The violinist and violin teacher became involved with the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS) and in 1913 enlisted George Bernard Shaw to speak against the force feeding of suffragettes during their imprisonment. In 1914, she wrote a pamphlet for the NCSWS entitled Women under a Liberal Government, 1906-1914.
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen print, 1886
NPG x22274
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