Miss Marie Naylor
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1866
Died: 1940
Education: Royal Academy of Art
Occupation: Artist
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Other Societies: NUWSS; LSWS
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 3
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Additional Information: Marie joined the WSPU after belonging to law-abiding societies because she longed 'to step out and take bolder and more effective action'. After meeting the leaders of the WSPU, she said that she felt she could 'follow these women to prison or to death'. She began speaking at WSPU meetings and taking part in demonstrations, and was arrested in 1908 after taking part in a 'raid' on the House of Commons. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison. Later, in 1911, she was arrested again for breaking windows at the Home Office, which she described as the 'only act of wilful damage that she had ever committed' at her trial. She was sentenced to ten days in prison. Sadly, Marie was killed during an air raid in the Second World War.