Postcard, photographic postcard

Postcard with photograph of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954) standing outside a theatre advertising performances of 'Carmen'. Postcards like these with portraits of suffragettes were produced as part of the female suffrage campaign and sold in Women's Social and Political Union shops to raise money for the cause.
Pethick Lawrence was Treasurer of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Together with her husband Frederick, she was also business manager of the organisation and edited its newspaper ‘Votes For Women’. As well as being a remarkable fund-raiser for the WSPU, she was arrested four times for her suffragette activities and served over four months in prison. In 1912 the Pankhursts expelled the Pethick-Lawrences from the WSPU for criticising the organisation’s increasingly militant direction. The Pethick-Lawrences continued to edit ‘Votes for Women’ and founded the Votes for Women Fellowship, a more moderate militant organisation.
It looks as if it was taken on the same occasion as NN22522.