Artists' Suffrage League

The ASL was established in Jan 1907 to assist with the preparations for the Mud March organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in February 1907.

Other than the central committee of chair, vice-chair and treasurer, the organisation had no traditional formal structure or statement of aims.

[1] The body was responsible for the creation of a large number of posters, Christmas cards, postcards and banners designed by artists who included the chair Mary Lowndes, Emily Ford, Barbara Forbes, May H Barker, Clara Billing, Dora Meeson Coates, Violet Garrard, Bertha Newcombe, C Hedley Charlton and Emily J. Harding.

The artist Duncan Grant, whose aunt, Lady Strachey was a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, entered the ASL poster and postcard competition in 1907.

[2] The archives of the Artists' Suffrage League are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics.