Marie Naylor
{{Short description|British artist and militant suffragette}}
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| birth_date = 1856
| birth_place = London
| death_date = {{death year and age|1940|1856}}
| death_place = Richmond
| death_cause = Air raid
| other_names = Mary Jane
| known_for = militant suffragette
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| occupation = Artist
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| nationality = British
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Marie Naylor (1856 – 1940) was a British artist and militant suffragette.{{Cite book |last=Dobbie |first=Beatrice Marion Willmott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWNFAAAAMAAJ&q=Marie+Naylor+suffrage |title=A Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset: Eagle House, Batheaston |date=1979 |publisher=The Society |isbn=978-0-9505390-1-0 |pages=40 |language=en}}
Life
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.{{cite book |author=Gerrish Nunn |first=Pamela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiUxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT55 |title=Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting |date=5 July 2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-55314-8 |pages=55–}} She studied in Paris and exhibited in various exhibitions and she had a one-woman exhibition at Galerie Dosbourg in 1898{{Cite news |last=Simkin |first=John |date=October 2022 |orig-date=September 1997 |title=Marie Naylor |url=http://spartacus-educational.com/WnaylorM.htm |access-date=2018-04-28 |work=Spartacus Educational |language=en}} before returning to the UK where she took an interest in women's suffrage.
In 1907, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), after previously belonging to the non-militant women's suffrage societies the National Union of Suffrage Societies and the Central Society for Women's Suffrage.{{Cite web |title=Miss Marie Naylor |url=https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/2268/miss-marie-naylor |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Women's Suffrage Resources}} Emily Blathwayt described her as "one of their (WSPU) best London speakers."
In February 1908, Naylor was one of several suffragette including Vera Wentworth and the sisters Georgiana Brackenbury and Marie Brackenbury who were arrested for the Pantechnicon Raid.{{cite book |author=Crawford |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giffod3v0FsC&pg=PA442 |title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-415-23926-4 |pages=442–}} This WSPU stunt was to drop off a large group of women from a removal van (a pantechnicon) so they could storm the House of Commons.
File:Blathwayt, Col Linley · Suffragette Marie Naylor planting tree with Mary Blathwayt 1910.jpg 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".{{Cite web|url=http://www.bathintime.co.uk/image/251589/blathwayt-col-linley-suffragette-marie-naylor-planting-tree-with-mary-blathwayt-1910|title=Suffragette Marie Naylor planting tree with Mary Blathwayt 1910, Blathwayt, Col Linley|website=Bath in Time, Images of Bath online|language=en|access-date=2018-04-28}}File:Bubbles by Marie Naylor.jpgWhen Emmeline Pankhurst died on 14 June 1928, Naylor was one of her pallbearers, alongside other former suffragettes Georgiana Brackenbury, Marie Brackenbury, Marion Wallace Dunlop, Harriet Kerr, Mildred Mansel, Kitty Marshall, Rosamund Massy, Ada Wright and Barbara Wylie.{{Cite book |last=Purvis |first=June |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wtx_AgAAQBAJ&dq=barbara+wylie&pg=PA353 |title=Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography |date=2003-09-02 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-34191-7 |pages=253 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Pugh |first=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IGelJr1eZDoC&dq=harriet+kerr+wspu&pg=PA408 |title=The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family |date=2008 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0-09-952043-6 |pages=408 |language=en}}
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Category:19th-century English women artists
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:British women's rights activists
Category:Eagle House suffragettes
Category:British civilians killed in World War II