Gospel Size:Large: 7 x 5in Arrested suffragettes went on hunger

Arrested suffragettes went on hunger strike in protest at the government's refusal to treat them as political prisoners

carrying a basket of crabs on her head

She had been living in Europe following her separation from George and his exclusion of her from the court while he was Prince Regent

South-east view of the church of St Mary Magdalene

She is sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen (since she never married)

Gospel Size:Large: 7 x 5in Arrested suffragettes went on hungerGospel, 12th century, (1929). Bound gospel originally in the monastery of S Mauritius Extra Muros, Munster, Westphalia, Germany. Illustration from the Apollo Volume X, no 59, (November 1929).