Women Labour MPs

Artistback to top

• Unknown photographer. Artist associated with 4585 portraits.

Sittersback to top

• Ethel Benthem (1861-1931), Politician. Sitter in 1 portrait.
• Margaret Grace Bondfield (1873-1953), Politician and first woman cabinet minister. Sitter in 6 portraits.
• Mary Agnes Hamilton (née Adamson) (1882-1966), Politician. Sitter in 3 portraits.
• (Arabella) Susan Lawrence (1871-1947), MP. Sitter in 3 portraits.
• Janet ('Jennie') Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (1904-1988), Politician; wife of Aneurin Bevan. Sitter in 25 portraits.
• Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley (née Curzon) (1898-1933), Politician and society figure; first wife of Sir Oswald Mosley. Sitter in 2 portraits.
• Marion Phillips (1881-1932), Politician. Sitter in 3 portraits.
• Edith Picton-Turbervill (1872-1960), Politician. Sitter in 8 portraits.
• Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (1891-1947), Politician; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security. Sitter in 28 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Among the MP's photographed following the 1929 general election are the first woman cabinet minister (Margaret Bondfield), the future leader of the Jarrow marchers (Ellen Wildinson) and the founding spirit of the Open University (Jennie Lee).

Linked publicationsback to top

• Owen, Elizabeth, Fashion in Photographs 1920-1940, 1993, p. 55

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Centenaries and Centenarians (5 February 2000 - 11 August 2000)