Bib SleighMar 10
CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.

#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

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Mar 10 at 10:22pmWeb
Show threadCarveHerNameMar 10

Richardson had been one of the first two women to be force fed whilst in prison for her suffragette actions.

In 1922 she stood for Labour in the general election. By 1934, she was Chief Organiser for the Women's Section of the British Union of Fascists. She left them a couple of years later.

A new biography of Mary Richardson, written by Helena Wojtczak, was published last year.

https://www.hastingspress.co.uk/mrr.html

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MARY RALEIGH RICHARDSON The suffragette arsonist who slashed the Rokeby Venus

MARY RALEIGH RICHARDSON

Show threadMegatronicThronBanksMar 10

@CarveHerName

I can't condone that.

But having read 'Unshackled', E. Pankhurst's biography about that period, I can understand the rage.