(Julia Sarah) Anne Cobden-Sanderson
(1866-1926), Socialist and suffragetteSitter in 8 portraits
Daughter of radical statesman Richard Cobden, Anne Cobden-Sanderson was a high- profile member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Immersed in the circle of William Morris, she began bookbinding with her husband Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, who would soon launch Dove Press with her investment and guidance. Her interest in the socialist movement and broader issues affecting the working classes of London's East End grew and in 1909 she helped set up the Women's Tax Resistance League. In 1906, she she was imprisoned in Holloway for her involvement in the Westminster protest against women's continued suppression. Her friend George Bernard Shaw described her as '..one of the nicest women in England suffering from the coarsest indignity'.
by Paolo Lombardi
albumen cabinet card, 1881
NPG x6953
by Paolo Lombardi
albumen cabinet card, 1881
NPG x6955
(Julia Sarah) Anne Cobden-Sanderson
by Unknown photographer
albumen cabinet card, 1881
NPG x197267
The Hammersmith Socialist Society
possibly by Sir Emery Walker
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 1892
NPG x19650
(Julia Sarah) Anne Cobden-Sanderson
by Unknown photographer, copied by Emery Walker Ltd
contact print, 1900s
NPG x88520
Charlotte Despard (née French) and Anne Cobden-Sanderson with a policeman
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 19 August 1909
NPG x27490
Charlotte Despard (née French); Anne Cobden-Sanderson with three unknown men
by Unknown photographer
halftone postcard print, 19 August 1909
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x45197
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