Muriel Darton

[4] She later wrote an article about becoming a professional photographer in the Church League for Women's Suffrage newspaper on 1 September 1915, describing how the training necessary “is not such a lengthy and costly process as is the case with many other professions.”[5] Darton photographed Theresa Garnett and Lillian Dove-Willcox for the 6 August 1909 issue of Votes for Women, illustrating the article about their trials.

[6] Later that year, a newspaper article in Votes for Women on 29 October marked Darton's enrolment as a member of the WSPU, where she wrote that she was “proud to become a member of a society whose adherents have shown themselves to be so entirely self-sacrificing and noble.” [7] Within two months she was advertising photography in Votes for Women, offering to cover the costs of materials “in all cases where it might be of service in advancing the propaganda work of the WSPU”.

[citation needed] In February 1912 Darton and her friend Dorothy Jolly set up the North Islington and Hornsey WSPU office at 19 St Thomas’ Road, Finsbury Park.

Darton photographed the General Council of the Church League for Women's Suffrage at their meeting in Brighton on 2 July 1913, and did individual portraits of Edward Lee Hicks (Bishop of Lincoln) and Rev Claude Hinscliff, founder of the CLWS.

[13] By February 1914, Darton was temporary secretary of the North Islington branch of the WSPU, a post which she held for some months, as well as continuing her photography business.