"only path to a 'Greater Britain,'" Richardson joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Sir Oswald Mosley. She claimed that "I was first attracted to the Blackshirts because I saw in them the courage, the action, the loyalty, the gift of service and the ability to serve which I had known in the suffragette movement". Richardson rose quickly through the BUF ranks and by 1934 was Chief Organiser for the Women's Section of the party. She left within two years after becoming disillusioned with the sincerity of its policy on women. Two other prominent suffragette leaders to gain high office in the BUF were Norah Elam and Commandant Mary Sophia Allen. Later life In 1930, she adopted a young baby boy, named Roger Robert, whom she gave the name Richardson. Richardson published her autobiography, Laugh a Defiance, in 1953. She died at her flat in Hastings on 7 November 1961. See also Suffragette bombing and arson campaign List of suffragists and suffragettes References Notes Citations Sources Further reading Nead, Lynda. The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality. Routledge, 1992. Prater, Andreas. Venus at Her Mirror: Velázquez and the Art of Nude Painting. Prestel, 2002. Bostridge, Mark. The Fateful Year. England 1914. Viking, 2014. Chapter on 'The Slashing of the Rokeby Venus'. 1880s births 1961 deaths British fascists Canadian fascists British suffragists Canadian suffragists Canadian arsonists British arsonists Canadian feminists British feminists British women in politics British anti-communists British Union of Fascists politicians Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates British autobiographers Canadian autobiographers Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom Hunger Strike Medal recipients