[2] She was brought up by Flora Shaw, a governess housekeeper - as Brackenbury's mother, Hilda Eliza, disliked housework.

Her parents both had artistic interests and Marie (and Georgina) went to the Slade School of Art where she specialised in landscapes.

[1] They transformed their studios into classrooms where they would train women in public speaking[2] and later for creating suffragette art.

[7] The "Suffragette's Rest" was the nickname for Mary Blathwayt's home at Eagle House where her parents also indulged their WSPU enthusiasm.

Her mother made the point that two of her sons had been killed in India on active service whilst she had little political rights.

[8] In 1913 the government passed the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act which gave the authorities the power to release hunger-striking suffragettes and then rearrest them when they had recovered.

[7] Emmeline Pankhurst died on 14 June 1928, Brackenbury was one of her pallbearers, alongside other former suffragettes Georgiana Brackenbury, Marion Wallace Dunlop, Harriet Kerr, Mildred Mansel, Kitty Marshall, Rosamund Massy, Marie Naylor, Ada Wright and Barbara Wylie.