{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"HappyCow","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog","author_name":"John Edmundson","author_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/johnnysensible\/","title":"Edith Cole & William Wallace Kelly - Anti-Vivisection Celebrities - 100+ years ago! - HappyCow","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QVg6H8pQZh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/edith-cole-william-wallace-kelly-anti-vivisection-celebrities\/\">Edith Cole &#038; William Wallace Kelly &#8211; Anti-Vivisection Celebrities &#8211; 100+ years ago!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/edith-cole-william-wallace-kelly-anti-vivisection-celebrities\/embed\/#?secret=QVg6H8pQZh\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Edith Cole &#038; William Wallace Kelly &#8211; Anti-Vivisection Celebrities &#8211; 100+ years ago!&#8221; &#8212; HappyCow\" data-secret=\"QVg6H8pQZh\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EdithColeDogsHome-mini.jpg","thumbnail_width":575,"thumbnail_height":250,"description":"\u00a0&#8220;Think of me as pleading with the Vivisectors for the dear dogs I love so well.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Edith Cole (1861? &#8211; 1927)\u00a0 The photo is by &#8211;\u00a0Mons\u00a0Sala Arbus, Reading.\u00a0M(argaret Solom)ons\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Sala Arbus,\u00a040 Friar Street,\u00a0Reading.\u00a0&#8211; opticians &amp; photographers.\u00a0To-date we have discovered almost nothing else about these photographers &#8211; but they sound &#8216;interesting&#8217;. Sala Arbus. London Gazette. No link whatsoever found to the rather more famous photographer\u00a0\u00a0Allan\u00a0Arbus (or to Diane Arbus! The Ernest Bell Library has always focused on collecting and preserving the records of anti-vivisection societies, details of anti-vivisection campaigns, anti-vivisection literature &amp; anti-vivisection ephemera. The early anti-vivisection societies cooperated with many celebrities &#8211; very effectively &#8211; but the battle against the vivisectors is still going on today! Above this is a battered anti-vivisection postcard from \u00a0&#8216;The National Canine Defence League&#8217; (NCDL) &#8211; from circa 1905 &#8211; featuring the then-famous English theatre actress Edith Cole &#8211;\u00a0aka &#8220;Mrs. William Wallace Kelly&#8221; aka &#8220;Mrs W. W. Kelly&#8221;. In the late 1890s &amp; into the early 20th C &#8211;\u00a0Ernest Bell, Jessey Wade, Gertrude and Harold Baillie-Weaver (Gertrude wrote the book Suffragette Sally\u00a0using the pseudonym &#8211; Gertrude Colmore) \u00a0&#8211; plus many other friends were running &amp; promoting NCDL. It was founded in 1891. In our Ernest Bell [&hellip;]"}