Portrait postcard signed by prominent WSPU suffragette Annie Kenney c1906-10

KENNEY, Annie (1879-1953), prominent WSPU member and organiser. Signed photographic postcard portrait. London: Lambert Weston & Son, [c.1906-1910].
 
Photographic postcard, 90 x 140 mm, signed in ink across the image “Yours very sincerely Annie Kenney”. Photographer’s imprint to lower margin “Lambert Weston & Son, 39 Brompton Sq., London”. Divided postcard back with printed address panel and copyright line for Lambert Weston & Son. Some creasing and surface abrasions to the reverse, with minor handling wear; reverse lightly marked but unused. The autograph remains bold and clearly legible. Very good.
 
A signed portrait of Annie Kenney (1879–1953), one of the most prominent organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union and a central figure in the militant suffrage movement. Born into a Lancashire mill-working family, Kenney became one of the movement’s most effective speakers and organisers. In 1905 she and Christabel Pankhurst gate crashed a Liberal political meeting at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall to ask Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey about votes for women, leading to their arrest and imprisonment, an event widely regarded as the beginning of the militant suffragette campaign. Kenney subsequently served multiple prison sentences and became one of the best known public faces of the WSPU. 
 
Kenney wrote 'memoirs of a militant' and there is a statue of her outside Oldham Town Hall. Signed photographic portraits of her are uncommon.