Mary Wheelhouse

Wheelhouse was born on 12 December 1867 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She was the youngest of three sisters and her elder sister Ethel Hamerton Wheelhouse (born 1865) became a professional violinist. Her father was physician at Leeds Public Dispensary and photographer Claudius Galen Wheelhouse, who became the president of the council of the British Medical Association. == Career ==

From 1900, Wheelhouse lived in Chelsea with the artist Louise Jacobs. Wheelhouse and Jacobs dissolved their toy making partnership in 1922, but Wheelhouse continued the company until just before the outbreak of World War II. Her works were exhibited in group exhibitions, including at the Baillie Gallery in 1912. == Suffrage ==

Wheelhouse campaigned for women's suffrage and was a board member of the Artists' Suffrage League (ASL), founded in 1907 to "further the cause of Women's Enfranchisement by the work and professional help of artists... by bringing in an attractive manner before the public eye the long continued demand for the vote" Wheelhouse created political cartoons for the ASL, such as "Those who ask shan’t have, those who don’t ask don’t want," which were published as postcards. == Death and legacy ==

Wheelhouse died in 1947, aged 79. ==Works illustrated include==

• May Baldwin's Holly House and Ridges Row, W. & R. Chambers, London, 1908 • Louisa M Alcott's "Good Wives", G. Bell & Sons, London, 1911 == Notes and references ==

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