Marie Naylor

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Marie Naylor
Born1856
London
Died1940 (aged 83–84)
Richmond
Cause of deathAir raid
NationalityBritish
Other namesMary Jane
OccupationArtist
Known formilitant suffragette

Marie Naylor (1856 – 1940) was a British artist and militant suffragette.

Life[edit]

Naylor was born in London in 1856. She studied art and had a self portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890 which was commented on by the Illustrated London News.[1] She studied in Paris and exhibited in various exhibitions and she had a one-woman exhibition at Galerie Dosbourg in 1898[2] before returning to the UK where she took an interest in women's suffrage.[3]

In 1907 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union. In February 1908 she was one of several suffragette including Vera Wentworth and the Brackenbury sisters who were arrested for the Pantechnicon Raid.[3] This WSPU stunt was to drop off a large group of women from a removal van (a pantechnicon) so that they could storm the House of Commons.

Marie Naylor planting Abies lasiocarpa with Mary Blathwayt in 1910

In 1909 and 1910 she stayed at Eagle House with Linley and Emily Blathwayt. On 9 April 1910 she was given the honour of planting a tree in "Annie's Arboretum".[4]

Naylor died in Richmond in 1940 after an air raid.

Bubbles, by Marie Naylor. Painted in Paris circa 1890 and exhibited at one of the artist's Paris exhibitions

References[edit]

  1. ^ PamelaGerrish Nunn (5 July 2017). Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting. Taylor & Francis. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-351-55314-8.
  2. ^ "Marie Naylor". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b Elizabeth Crawford (2001). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Psychology Press. pp. 442–. ISBN 978-0-415-23926-4.
  4. ^ "Suffragette Marie Naylor planting tree with Mary Blathwayt 1910, Blathwayt, Col Linley". Bath in Time, Images of Bath online. Retrieved 28 April 2018.