McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.
Holloway Prison
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Maud Gonne | MG
was arrested and sent to Holloway Prison
in London on a charge of sedition (that is, of working for the enemy in the first world war). Tóibín, Colm. “A Djinn speaks”. London Review of Books, pp. 19-24. 21 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Kazantzis | Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743... |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway
for refusing to be turned back by the police as one of a deputation to the Prime Minister
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (25 November 1909): 4 |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
, with other suffragists imprisoned with her a month before, were released from Holloway Prison
, having first been allowed to read, for the first time, the letters sent them during that month. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 196 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Lytton | Condemned to Holloway Prison
for her part in a suffrage demonstration and finding that her class status singled her out for favouritism, CL
exercised her right as a prisoner to petition the Home Secretary... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton
, a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison
, Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 152-3 |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney
told her that as a working-class woman she had... |
politics | Constance Lytton | Again she went through the process of arrest (and again encountered a sympathiser among women officials). Despite falling ill during the process, she attended the police station for sentencing, and was condemned to two weeks'... |
Textual Features | Constance Lytton | No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison
without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public... |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | In the last few months of her life CL
worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria
's... |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU
deputation to Parliament
. She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison
and her experience garnered much media attention. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 30-2 |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
advised the gaolers at Holloway Prison
in London that suffragettes ought not to be treated as criminals but rather as political prisoners (who received better treatment during their incarceration). Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 85-6 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | On 5 March 1912 EP
was again thrown into Holloway, along with a great many other suffragettes. During this incarceration she cultivated a friendship with composer Ethel Smyth
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 106 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | On her release from HollowaySP
was greeted by a crowd of Communist supporters waving red flags; the Daily Herald headlined its account The Little Woman in the Doorway. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 101 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press. 153 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Shortly after her release from Holloway
, where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP
was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain
. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 170, 216n123 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 102 |
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