{{short description|British artist, illustrator, and suffragette}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Emily J. Harding | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1850}} | birth_place = Bristol, England | death_date = {{Death year and age|1940|1850}} | death_place = Sutherland Shire, Australia | alma_mater = Bristol School of Art | other_names = Emily Jane Harding Andrews | occupation = Artist, suffragette | years_active = | known_for = Illustration | notable_works = | spouse = {{marriage|Edward William Andrews|1879|1915|end=his death}} }}
'''Emily Jane Harding Andrews''' (1850–1940) was a British artist, illustrator, and suffragette. She was a member of the Artists' Suffrage League.
==Early life== Harding was born in 1850 in Bristol, England. She studied at Clifton Ladies' College and the Bristol School of Art.<ref name="Woman and her Sphere">{{cite web |title=Suffrage Stories/Women Artists: Emily Jane Harding Andrews |url=https://womanandhersphere.com/2014/11/21/suffrage-storieswomen-artists-emily-jane-harding-andrews/ |website=Woman and her Sphere |access-date=9 June 2019 |language=en |date=21 November 2014}}</ref>
== Career == In her early career she specialized in miniatures. One was included at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1877. By the mid-1880s, Harding had changed her focus to illustration, often of children's books, including ''Hand in Hand in Children's Land'' (1887) by S. and E. Lecky,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35084190/christmas_books_1887/|title=Christmas Books|date=24 December 1887|work=The Standard|access-date=19 August 2019|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''The Little Ladies'' (1890) by Helen Milman,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35084110/gift_books_ii_1890/|title=Gift Books II|date=3 December 1890|work=The Guardian|access-date=19 August 2019|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Merry Moments'' (1892) by Rose E. May,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35083888/emily_j_harding_1892/|title=Christmas Gifts for the Little Ones|date=23 November 1892|work=Liverpool Mercury|access-date=19 August 2019|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and ''The Disagreeable Duke'' (1894) by Eleanor Davenport Adams.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35083760/emily_j_harding_1894/|title=Books of the Season|date=21 December 1894|work=The Standard|access-date=19 August 2019|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She generally used her maiden name,<ref name="Uncover your ancestors">{{cite web |title=Suffragettes and art |url=https://www.uncoveryourancestors.org/blog/suffragettes-and-art |website=Uncover your ancestors |access-date=9 June 2019 |language=en |archive-date=6 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906052445/https://www.uncoveryourancestors.org/blog/suffragettes-and-art |url-status=dead }}</ref> though exceptions exist.<ref>E.g. :File:Convicts Lunatics and Women! Have No Vote for Parliament, ca. 1907-1918.jpg is signed "Emily J. Harding Andrews"</ref> Her translation and illustrations for "Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen" ({{ISBN|1909302554}}) remain in print.<ref name="Abela Publishing">{{cite book |last1=Harding |first1=Emily J |title=Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen - 20 Slavic Tales |date=2014 |publisher=Abela Publishing |isbn=9781909302556 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4DioAEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>
Harding became involved with the Artists' Suffrage League, designing posters for the cause.<ref name="Artist Biographies">{{cite web |title=Harding, Emily Jane 1850-1940 {{!}} Artist Biographies |url=https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/harding-emily-jane |website=Artist Biographies: British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century |access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjp5Yw_w8XsC&q=Emily+Harding+Andrews&pg=PA50-IA4|title=The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14|last=Tickner|first=Lisa|date=31 March 1988|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226802459|pages=50|language=en}}</ref> She co-signed a letter to the editor of ''The Guardian'' in 1908, decrying the use of physical violence against activists, alongside fellow artist and suffragist Mary Sargant Florence.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35084298/emily_harding_andrews_1908/|title=Women and Physical Force|date=16 December 1908|work=The Guardian|access-date=19 August 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Personal life == In 1879 she married fellow artist Edward William Andrews.<ref name="Uncover your ancestors" /> Harding's husband died in 1915, and she eventually emigrated to Australia. She died in 1940 in Sutherland Shire.<ref name="Woman and her Sphere" />
==Gallery== <gallery heights="350px" mode="packed"> Convicts Lunatics and Women! Have No Vote for Parliament, ca. 1907-1918.jpg|"Convicts Lunatics and Women! Have No Vote for Parliament" - Pro-suffrage poster by Harding, c. 1907-18 Emily J. Harding Andrews Mrs Partington.jpg|''Mrs Partington'' Emily J. Harding Slav Peasants and Herdsmen 1896 Frontispiz.png|''Frontispiece from "Slav Tales"'' </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Emily J. Harding}} *[http://www.artnet.com/artists/emily-j-harding/ Images of Harding's art on ArtNet] *[https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Emily-J--Harding/8A40C9B47E471645 Images of Harding's art on MutualArt]
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