Thanks to anyone who has attended my exhibition of Illustrated Women in History this weekend, and thanks to @fanclubzine for coming to play #riotgrrrl and sell zines (many of which contain Illustrated Women in History) which are available online here Selected framed prints of illustrations are currently up at HOURS Space in Bristol until the …
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International Women’s Day 2016
Bristol Women’s Voice held a celebration for International Women’s Day at M Shed, Bristol today. As part of the event, I ran a workshop where people could draw women in history that are important to them using some of my illustrations for inspiration. The images above are some of the examples of women that were …
Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Power Cobbe was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading women’s suffrage campaigner. Cobb was born in 1822 in Newbridge House on her family estate in what is now Donabate, Co. Dublin. The Cobbe family included noteworthy figures like Charles Cobbe, the Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765. Cobbe was the …
Mary Carpenter
Mary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. She brought education to poor children and young offenders in Bristol who had been previously denied it. Carpenter was born in 1807 in Exeter. In 1817 her family moved to Bristol and her father took charge of the Lewin’s Mead Unitarian meeting house. He also established …
Hannah More
Hannah More was an English educator, writer and social reformer. She was known for her writings on abolition and for encouraging women to join the anti-slavery movement. More was born in 1745 in Fishponds, Bristol. She was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More, a schoolmaster from Harleston, Norfolk and Mary Grace More. More’s …
Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney was an English working class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women’s Social and Political Union. Kenney started work at the age of 10 in a local cotton mill in Yorkshire. She was a cotton frame tenter and her duties were to crawl on her hands and knees under the machine …
Norah Fry
Norah Fry (also known by her married name Norah Cooke-Hurle) was an advocate and campaigner for disabled children and those with learning difficulties. She was a mental health pioneer. Fry was a member of the Bristol Quaker Fry family of the J. S. Fry & Sons company who made chocolate and cocoa. She became Norah …