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Yvonne Middleton née Cumbers- photographer

21/12/2020

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On This Day 22 December 1975 Madame Yevonde died

Yvonne Middleton née Cumbers- photographer, was born Yevonde Philone Cumbers on 5 January 1893 at The Cottage, St Julian's Road, Streatham, the daughter of Frederick Cumbers, a director of Johnstone and Cumbers, manufacturers of printing inks, and Ethel Westerton.
In 1910 while still a student on the continent, Yevonde joined the women's suffrage movement, promoting female emancipation. In defiance of her genteel upbringing she decided to take up a profession and, after seeing an advertisement for a photographer's apprentice in The Suffragette, settled upon photography.

Some of her work contained in the link below:
https://www.npg.org.uk/.../person/mp06547/madame-yevonde...
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Image of Yevonne Middleton, Gertrde Larence and George Bernard Shaw. ©National Portrait Gallery
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