Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Illustrator, watercolourist, and suffragist. Born in Hackney, London. Daughter of Samuel Prout Newcombe, a teacher, and Hannah Hales Anderton. Educated at Slade School of Art and likely at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. Influenced by French naturalism, she exhibited at the Paris Salon, the Royal Academy, and the Society of Lady Artists. In the 1890s, she became involved with the Fabian Society, creating portraits of socialist figures and briefly having a romantic relationship with George Bernard Shaw. By the early 1900s, she largely abandoned art to focus on women’s suffrage activism by becoming a committee member of the Artists’ Suffrage League and London Society for Women’s Suffrage. Biographical information: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 449; Luke Herrmann, Nineteenth Century British Painting, (London: Giles de la Mare, 2000), p. 370-371. (NM)