8 March

3.30pm – 4.30pm

To celebrate International Women’s Day, join Dr Lucy Ella Rose, Lecturer in Victorian Literature for a fascinating insight into Mary Watts’ involvement in the Women’s suffrage movement. A pioneering Surrey suffragist, Mary was the President of a suffrage society and held a large suffrage meeting at her studio-home 'Limnerslease'. She participated in high-profile marches and entered a network of famous early feminists. This talk, celebrating International Women's Day, reveals Mary's role in the rise of feminism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, showing how she joined the fight for equality that we continue today.

Dr Lucy Ella Rose is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey. She researches women in nineteenth-century creative partnerships, and has worked extensively on the Mary Watts archive. Rose presents and publishes on Victorian literature, visual culture and feminisms. She is the author of Suffragist Artists in Partnership: Gender, Word and Image (EUP 2018), focused on the Wattses and the De Morgans.