Suffrage Atelier
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Suffrage Atelier was a publication collective campaigning for women's suffrage
in England.
It was founded by Laurence Housman
and Alfred Pearse
.
They encouraged non-professional artists to submit work, and paid them a small percentage of the profits.
Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or...
in England.
It was founded by Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.-Early life:Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children who included the poet A. E. Housman and writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin...
and Alfred Pearse
Alfred Pearse
Alfred Pearse was an English cartoonist and campaigner, also known as A Patriot.Pearse designed posters campaiging for women's suffrage. He drew a weely cartoon fir Votes for Women from 1909, and was also regularly published in The Illustrated London News, Punch, Boy's Own Paper and Punch...
.
They encouraged non-professional artists to submit work, and paid them a small percentage of the profits.