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Hilda Dallas
Hilda Mary Dallas (6 February 1878 – 1958) was a British artist and a suffragette who designed suffrage posters and cards and took a leadership role for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A pacifist, she raised funds from a cross-section of society, produced and designed set & costumes for the 1929 Court Theatre production of the anti-war satirical play The Rumour.
Hilda Mary Dallas was born in what was then the Empire of Japan on 6 February 1878, as her father Charles Dallas was teaching English there. She had a sister Irene born in 1883, and either Hilda or the family returned to Britain before 1901/2, when Hilda Dallas became a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her works were exhibited with the Allied Artists Association and the Society of Women Artists. Dallas joined the Suffrage Atelier, a group of artists using visual art for supporting the women's suffrage movement.
Her sister Irene Dallas was arrested with a WPSU protest group approaching the Prime Minister to ask for action on votes for women. Hilda Dallas was then seen encouraging others to join another Women's Social and Political Union protest on 30 June 1908, in a poster parade outside the House of Commons, with Dorothy Radcliffe, Charlotte Marsh and Dora Spong and selling the W.S.P.U. newspaper Votes for Women.
She financially supported the work of W.S.P.U. fundraising in 1908/9. Dallas became the organiser for WSPU South St. Pancras branch, London. Dallas was seen with a megaphone and suffragettes Mrs May, Maud Joachim, Miss Harriett Ker disrupting the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race.
In 1909, she designed a new publicity poster of a woman holding high the WSPU newspaper, ‘Votes for Women,’ with the price (one pence 1d) and the words Wanted Everywhere. This had been commissioned after her previous poster (from 1903) with the words 'Read Our Paper', was used for launching street selling of the paper, and was described in it as a 'charming advertisement’; and credited with increasing the sales in Brighton. At the height of the campaign, 40,000 copies were selling (weekly) across the country.
A century after (some) women were enfranchised, the 1903 image was used on the cover of a book by Elizabeth Crawford (2018) on Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists. The 1908 design was described in 2018 as 'an optimistic vision of equality' in the last century of graphic design by women.
The wording 'Wanted Everywhere' poster was used for the self-acclaimed ‘greatest political weekly of the moment’ for the WSPU summer holiday initiative of 1912. The slogan can mean the newspaper is 'wanted' or that women's right to vote is desired (or desirable) in ‘every corner of the British Isles’. The new design was expected by the campaign organisers to be welcomed by holiday cottage tenants or newsagents to show support for the cause and put on display. Bulk discount was offered. One activist, Miss Harman reported it was already on display at Woodbridge railway station shop when she went to distribute the papers.
Like the posters, Dallas's 1909 Christmas card graphic designs were in the WSPU colours (green, white and purple), and (with two other cards) were expected to raise £100 at the WPSU shops that Christmas (priced at 3d; this would require sales of 8000 cards). The shops had seasonal window displays of WSPU gifts, cards and literature. The Kilburn High Road shop had a doll dressed as per Hilda Dallas's poster, carrying a copy of the poster on its shoulders. It attracted in a young girl, offering up 2 pence to see the ‘suffragettes’, to be told that looking is 'free of charge'.
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Hilda Dallas
Hilda Mary Dallas (6 February 1878 – 1958) was a British artist and a suffragette who designed suffrage posters and cards and took a leadership role for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A pacifist, she raised funds from a cross-section of society, produced and designed set & costumes for the 1929 Court Theatre production of the anti-war satirical play The Rumour.
Hilda Mary Dallas was born in what was then the Empire of Japan on 6 February 1878, as her father Charles Dallas was teaching English there. She had a sister Irene born in 1883, and either Hilda or the family returned to Britain before 1901/2, when Hilda Dallas became a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her works were exhibited with the Allied Artists Association and the Society of Women Artists. Dallas joined the Suffrage Atelier, a group of artists using visual art for supporting the women's suffrage movement.
Her sister Irene Dallas was arrested with a WPSU protest group approaching the Prime Minister to ask for action on votes for women. Hilda Dallas was then seen encouraging others to join another Women's Social and Political Union protest on 30 June 1908, in a poster parade outside the House of Commons, with Dorothy Radcliffe, Charlotte Marsh and Dora Spong and selling the W.S.P.U. newspaper Votes for Women.
She financially supported the work of W.S.P.U. fundraising in 1908/9. Dallas became the organiser for WSPU South St. Pancras branch, London. Dallas was seen with a megaphone and suffragettes Mrs May, Maud Joachim, Miss Harriett Ker disrupting the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race.
In 1909, she designed a new publicity poster of a woman holding high the WSPU newspaper, ‘Votes for Women,’ with the price (one pence 1d) and the words Wanted Everywhere. This had been commissioned after her previous poster (from 1903) with the words 'Read Our Paper', was used for launching street selling of the paper, and was described in it as a 'charming advertisement’; and credited with increasing the sales in Brighton. At the height of the campaign, 40,000 copies were selling (weekly) across the country.
A century after (some) women were enfranchised, the 1903 image was used on the cover of a book by Elizabeth Crawford (2018) on Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists. The 1908 design was described in 2018 as 'an optimistic vision of equality' in the last century of graphic design by women.
The wording 'Wanted Everywhere' poster was used for the self-acclaimed ‘greatest political weekly of the moment’ for the WSPU summer holiday initiative of 1912. The slogan can mean the newspaper is 'wanted' or that women's right to vote is desired (or desirable) in ‘every corner of the British Isles’. The new design was expected by the campaign organisers to be welcomed by holiday cottage tenants or newsagents to show support for the cause and put on display. Bulk discount was offered. One activist, Miss Harman reported it was already on display at Woodbridge railway station shop when she went to distribute the papers.
Like the posters, Dallas's 1909 Christmas card graphic designs were in the WSPU colours (green, white and purple), and (with two other cards) were expected to raise £100 at the WPSU shops that Christmas (priced at 3d; this would require sales of 8000 cards). The shops had seasonal window displays of WSPU gifts, cards and literature. The Kilburn High Road shop had a doll dressed as per Hilda Dallas's poster, carrying a copy of the poster on its shoulders. It attracted in a young girl, offering up 2 pence to see the ‘suffragettes’, to be told that looking is 'free of charge'.
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