Olive Hockin
Olive Hockin (married name Olive Leared) (1881–1936) was a British suffragette and artist.[1]:{{{3}}} 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]:{{{3}}} 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]:{{{3}}}
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, Hockin was arrested, convicted and handed a four-month sentence.[1]:{{{3}}}
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