Rosa Howlett

Howlett was born in Norwich, Norfolk, and was the daughter of a leather merchant and shoe manufacturer.^[1]

Howlett studied under Hubert von Herkomer at his school in Bushey.^[2] Her painting "Market Scene" is held in the collection of the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery.^[3] She exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall with The London Salon of the Allied Artists' Association in 1901 and 1911.^[4]

In 1916, Howlett co-exhibited the work Noah's Ark at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, which she constructed with Margaret West,^[5][6] who she shared a home with.^[7] She was also friends with Virginia Woolf.^[2]

Howlett was active in the women's suffrage movement. When a branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was opened in Norwich in 1912,^[8] she was appointed a local secretary.^[9]

Howlett died in 1961 in Hertford, Hertfordshire.^{[citation needed]}