Votes For Women. Mrs. Marion Holmes

Postcard portrait of the Suffragette Marion Holmes, leading member of the Women's Freedom League.
The image depicts Marion wearing her Holloway badge first presented to members of the WFL on their release from prison in 1908. The image is signed by the sitter across the image.
Such postcards were issued by the Women's Freedom League to both raise the profile of the leaders and to raise funds for the campaign.
Marion Holmes (d. 1943) was born in Wortley, South Yorkshire. She co-founded the Margate Pioneer Society, which held debates about social issues, particularly those relevant to women. In 1907 Homes was president of the Croydon branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. Later that year the branch joined the Women's Freedom League, which had just been established, and Holmes became a member of its national executive. She was joint editor of WFL newspaper 'The Vote' from 1909. Much of Holmes's day-to-day work for the WFL consisted in travelling countrywide to campaign during by-elections. Marion was married to Philip Holmes a dispensing chemist. They had two daughters, Dorothy Milner Holmes born 1889 in Hampshire and Elinor Beatrice [Betty] Milner Holmes, born 3 June 1903 in Merstham, Surrey.