Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise

Suffrage and the Arts re—establishes the central role that artistic women and men—from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers, through to retailers of 'artistic' products—played in the suffrage campaign in the British Isles. As political individuals, they were foot soldiers who helped sustain the momentum of the movement and as designers, makers and sellers they spread the message of the campaign to new local, national and international audiences, mediating how suffrage activism was und...