
DAVISON (EMILY WILDING) Two memorial service programmes, 14 June 1913 and 6 June 1914
£600 - £800
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DAVISON (EMILY WILDING)
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'LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND': A MEMORIAL FOR A SUFFRAGETTE MARTYR.
After the Pankhursts, Emily Wilding Davison is arguably the best-known suffragette and the story of her death on 8 June 1913 following injuries sustained at the Epsom Derby four days earlier has been the subject of much theory and speculation. Whilst her motives remain unclear, by this final act she became forever a martyr to the cause and was accorded a spectacular funeral, attended by her closest friends and a procession of some six thousand mourners. Her memorial service was conducted by Reverend H. Baumgarten and Reverend Claude Hinscliff, a leading member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage. The lot also includes a rare programme for a memorial service held for her a year later.
Provenance: Mary Phillips Collection, Sotheby's, 'Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents', 29 June 1982, lot 62.