Olive Hockin

Olive Hockin (married name Olive Leared) (1881–1936) was a British suffragette, author, and artist.[1][2] Between 1904 and 1911 she studied at the Slade. Her work was shown at the Royal Academy, by the Society of Women Artists and at the Walker Gallery.[1] She was a Land Girl during the Great War, and later wrote Two Girls on the Land: Wartime on a Dartmoor Farm, which was published in 1918.[2]

Hockin joined the suffragette movement in 1912. In 1913, after arson attacks on the Roehampton Golf Club and on a house at Walton Heath belonging to Lloyd George, suspected to be suffragette-related, Hockin was arrested, convicted and handed a four-month sentence.[1]

The National Portrait Gallery has a picture of her by the Criminal Record Office, and a picture called "Surveillance Photograph of Militant Suffragettes", also by the Criminal Record Office, which includes her.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Elizabeth Crawford (1999). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. London: UCL Press. pp. 287–288. ISBN 9781841420318.
  2. 1 2 Bonnie White (2014). The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 122. ISBN 9781137363916.
  3. ↑ "Olive Leared (née Hockin) - Person - National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-30.


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