1. Hilda Mary Dallas 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.
11 Facts About Hilda Dallas
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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.
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Hilda Dallas's works were exhibited with the Allied Artists Association and the Society of Women Artists.
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Hilda Dallas became the organiser for WSPU South St Pancras branch, London.
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The Kilburn High Road shop had a doll dressed as per Hilda Dallas's poster, carrying a copy of the poster on its shoulders.
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In 1912, after a split in the WSPU's leadership, The Suffragette became their weekly publication, and a poster image was designed by Hilda Dallas including a Joan of Arc like figure with the word 'Justice' on her tabard, wearing armour and holding a sword and a WSPU pennant.
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On Christmas Day 1913, Hilda Dallas went with her sister Irene, and eleven other suffrage activist as guests to Paris to dine with Christabel Pankhurst, in the fashionable Restaurant Mollard, designed by Edouard Niermans, and they ended by singing The March of the Women.
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Hilda Dallas's drawing 'To Buckingham Palace' in WSPU colours was a drawing of the deputation of suffragettes to Buckingham Palace on 21 May 1914.
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An image of part of Hilda Dallas's set design and costumes are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Hilda Dallas and her sister had known the author and artist Denton Welch since he was a child, and they remained close throughout Welch's short life.
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Hilda Dallas appears in Welch's unfinished, posthumously-published autobiographical novel A Voice Through a Cloud.