A Suffragette ‘Freedom Award’ lithograph scroll, signed by Emmeline Pankhurst and awarded to Ellison Gibb (1883-1970), will go under the hammer at Great Western Auctions on September 21-22 in Glasgow.
The Glasgow-born Gibb was arrested several times outside 10 Downing Street and once confronted Winston Churchill on a train to Glasgow where she told him of the suffering of women in Holloway Prison. Churchill reportedly responded by calling Gibb “intolerable, disgusting, a nuisance” and a “low woman”.
The 20 x 13in (51 x 35cm) scroll on card is inscribed On Behalf of all women who will win freedom by the bondage which you have endured for their sake, and dignity by the humiliation which you have gladly suffered for the uplifting of our sex.