Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
Holloway Prison
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Pat Arrowsmith | |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | Most of her prison sentences were served in Holloway Women's Prison
, one of the largest in Britain. In her autobiography she remarks wryly that she often wished the various magistrates and judges who have... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pat Arrowsmith | She wrote much of Jericho while serving time in Holloway Prison
, and dedicated it to her same-sex partner, Wendy Butlin
. Arrowsmith, Pat. Jericho. Heretic Books. prelims Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Literary Setting | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
had been jailed herself eight times as a prisoner of conscience when she wrote this novel. It is set in Collingwood Prison, an institution closely resembling Holloway Women's Prison
, where Arrowsmith was often... |
politics | Clara Codd | CC
took part in the rush on the House of Commons
led by Christabel Pankhurst
. She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol
, becoming the... |
Textual Features | Clara Codd | So Rich a Life includes a detailed account of CC
's month-long stay in Holloway Gaol
after her arrest for suffragette activism on 13 October 1908. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 38778 (15 October 1908): 8 Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited. 69-76 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was arrested along with other Sinn Féin
leaders (including Maud Gonne
) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail
; she was not released until 10 March 1919. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 182, 189 |
politics | Charlotte Despard | |
politics | Charlotte Despard | Lady Constance Lytton
recorded how CD
(whose leadership qualities she warmly admired) was committed to Holloway Prison
early in 1909. She described the meeting there between Despard and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, when the two women's... |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament
in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison
. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Gawthorpe | Up Hill to Holloway covers MG
's life up to 1906, encompassing in rich detail the experience of her working-class forebears and contemporaries as well as her own. She mentions details about her family's mindset... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
re-lives the experience of school, and Sunday school, and the teaching career on which she embarked at not yet fourteen. Here again she supplies vivid detail about long-gone objects: writing slates, chronolithographs of Bible... |
Publishing | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture, published this year in New York and London, was passed from one incarcerated suffragist to another in Holloway Prison
. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 333 |
Timeline
Early November 1885: Four of the six defendants in the W. T. Stead...
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Early November 1885
Four of the six defendants in the W. T. Stead
abduction case (following his attempt to expose the white slave trade) were found guilty.
23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...
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23 October 1906
During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament
, eleven Women's Social and Political Union
supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway
.
11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...
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11 December 1906
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison
of suffragists arrested on 23 October.
May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...
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May 1909
The Women's Social and Political Union
held a Votes for Women Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, London, which netted £5,607 for the suffrage cause.
5 July 1909: Marion Wallace Dunlop started the first suffrage...
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5 July 1909
Marion Wallace Dunlop
started the first suffrage hunger-strike after being arrested for stencilling graffitti on the wall of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons; she was released after four days.
30 October 1909: Rose Lamartine Yates planted a tree in Annie's...
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30 October 1909
Rose Lamartine Yates
planted a tree in Annie's Arboretum (named from Annie Kenney
), a commemorative landscape project begun by Emily
and Mary Blathwayt
at their home, Eagle House at Batheaston, which offered refuge...
20 February 1913: Lilian Lenton was first arrested, after she...
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20 February 1913
Lilian Lenton
was first arrested, after she and another suffragist set fire to a tea-house in Kew Gardens. She became notorious first because of damage to her health by force-feeding when she went on...
10 March 1914: A suffragist, Mary Richardson, slashed the...
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10 March 1914
A suffragist, Mary Richardson
, slashed the Rokeby Venus (the only known female nude by Velasquez
, which shows Venus admiring herself in a mirror) in the National Gallery, London.
13 July 1955: Ruth Ellis was hanged at Holloway Prison...
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13 July 1955
Ruth Ellis
was hanged at Holloway Prison
in London for the murder of her boyfriend, the last woman in Britain to die by judicial execution.
2005: Six South London prostitutes, members of...
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2005
Six South London prostitutes, members of a theatre group called Rise
, performed a play entitled Can You See Me?, written by themselves and Emma Bernard
, freelance director.
Texts
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