Winson Green

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politics Dora Marsden
DM , Mary Gawthorpe , and Rona Robinson were arrested in their academic gowns at Manchester University after protesting against the recent start of force-feeding at Birmingham's Winson Green Prison .
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990.
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Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsden’s Feminism, the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Freewoman</span>, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 31-56.
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politics Dora Marsden
This episode contributed to the drive towards the force-feeding of jailed suffragists.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990.
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The women's release was questioned by the Pall Mall Gazette and the Southport Visitor, the latter of which called it a...

Timeline

18 September 1909
Women's Social and Political Union members Mary Leigh and Charlotte Marsh , imprisoned in Winson Green , Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone to be forcibly fed.

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