Jessie Holliday

[6][7][8] The following year she began to portraiture in earnest, tackling many important socialist figures and leading thinkers.

Amongst them were Clifford Allen, Hugh Dalton, Dr Somerville Hastings, the Labour MP for Reading, P.S.

She went on to include as her sitters George Bernard Shaw,[9] Sidney and Beatrice Webb,[10] and Blank Whites.

Holliday supported the Food Reform Movement; part of which was her own personal contribution by becoming a vegetarian.

Holliday committed suicide by drowning[11] at Cliff Beach, Nantucket[12] on 17 June 1915, aged thirty-one years.