CLEMENCE ANNIE HOUSMAN

The portrait of Clemence Housman is a detail taken from a photograph published in The Evening Standard at the time of her arrest for tax evasion as a form of suffragist protest. Housman is looking directly at the camera and smiling. Her hair is pulled back and she is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and tie. She has suffrage badges on her lapel and is standing in front of a suffrage banner.

MLA citation:

Clemence Housman. Photograph published in The Evening Standard, 1911. Courtesy of Women’s Library Collection, London School of Economics, via Wikimedia Commons. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2024. https://1890s.ca/housman_clemence_portrait