10 March 1914: A suffragist, Mary Richardson, slashed the...
Building item
10 March 1914
A suffragist, Mary Richardson
, slashed the Rokeby Venus (the only known female nude by Velasquez
, which shows Venus admiring herself in a mirror) in the National Gallery, London.
1953: Mary Raleigh Richardson published her autobiography,...
Women writers item
1953
Mary Raleigh Richardson
published her autobiography, Laugh a Defiance, which relates her experiences as a suffragist.