Caricaturing Mirabehn

Caricaturing Mirabehn

Mirabehn provided rich fodder for political cartoonists and tabloid press. The Evening Standard contrasted her heritage (her father was Admiral Sir Edmund Slade, her sister was married to an English civil servant working in India) with the stories of two of her cousins, working on the London stage. David Low used her as one of many contrasts between the conservative bloc of Winston Churchill and Lord Rothermere (editor of the Daily Mail) and Gandhi’s staff.

Reproduced with permission of David Low / Solo Syndication