Anne Cobden-Sanderson

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Anne Cobden-Sanderson 1907

Anne Cobden-Sanderson or Julia Sarah Anne Cobden (born March 26, 1853 in London , † November 2, 1926 in Hammersmith ) was a British socialist and suffragette .

Life

Cobden was born in London in 1853 into the family of the radical politician Richard Cobden and his wife Catherine Anne. After her father's death, she attended schools in the UK and Germany. She lived in the house of George MacDonald for a time and later in the house of William Morris . In 1882 she married former attorney TJ Sanderson ; the couple took the jointly married name Cobden-Sanderson.

Anne was concerned that her husband preferred thinking to action that she led him to become a bookbinder . The couple already moved in the social circles around William Morris and Jane Burdon, and it was their husband who first coined the term des Arts and Crafts . Morris had already started Kelmscott Press when Anne's husband and photographer Emery Walker started a printing company together. The printing company was named Doves Press and the proceeds were shared. Anne provided the start-up capital of £ 1,600. It was agreed that if the partnership was terminated, Walker would be entitled to keep a copy of the typeface that the printing company was developing. The font was designed, and Anne's determined husband created the Doves Bible by strictly following Art and Crafts principles. The venture generated a profit of £ 500. But in 1906 the partners got into an argument because of Walker's lack of interest on the one hand and the obsession with Anne's husband on the other. Despite the agreement, however, Anne's husband did not release the copy of the font, but arranged for it to be thrown into the Thames .

Anne Cobden-Sanderson at 10 Downing Street just before she was arrested in 1909.

Cobden-Sanderson worked for the Independent Labor Party and was arrested along with Minnie Baldock and Nellie Martel for improper conduct when they demonstrated for women's suffrage at the opening of parliament in October 1906. George Bernard Shaw wrote a letter of protest and Anne was released after a month in prison. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League and was involved in the formation of the Women's Tax Resistance League in 1909 .

In 1907, Harriet Stanton Blatch invited Cobden-Sanderson to the United States to tell American suffragettes about the methods of protest used by the movement in the United Kingdom. On the trip she was accompanied by her husband who, while giving lectures, was hailed as a prominent representative of the British Arts and Craft Movement.

Her husband died in 1922. After his death, Anne Cobden-Sanderson paid a large sum to Emery Walker to make up for her husband throwing all copies of the font into the Thames.

Cobden-Sanderson died in Hammersmith in 1926 .

Web links

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d A. C. Howe, (Julia Sarah) 'Anne Cobden-Sanderson (1853–1926)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004 online . Retrieved July 28, 2015
  2. ^ The Fight Over the Doves . In: The Economist , December 21, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2015. 
  3. ↑ a b The Suffrage Cause and Bryn Mawr - The British Lecturers , Brynmawr College, accessed July 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Anne Cobden Sanderson , Spartacus, accessed July 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Cobden-Sanderson, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cobden, Julia Sarah Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1926
Place of death Hammersmith