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Marion Wallace Dunlop
British artist and suffragette (1864–1942)
Marion Wallace Dunlop (22 December 1864 – 12 September 1942) was a Scottish artist, author and illustrator of children's books,[1] and Suffragette. She was the first and one of the most well known British suffrage activists to go on hunger strike on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 for militancy.[2] She said she would not take any food unless she was treated as a political prisoner instead of as a common criminal. Wallace Dunlop's mode of protest influenced suffragettes after her and other leaders like M. K. Gandhi and James Connolly, who also used fasting to protest British rule.[3] She was at the centre of the Women's Social and Political Union and designed some of the most influential processions of the UK suffrage campaign,[4] as well as designing banners for them.