Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
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politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Holloway
, but not to hard labour. Supporters marched past Holloway with banners reading Six Months for Telling the Truth. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 100 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press. 53, 124, 151-2 Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 123-4, 127-32 |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Health | Jean Rhys | Before passing sentence on JR
, the judge ordered a psychiatric assessment. Although she was probably declared free of any serious mental illness, she was diagnosed as a hysteric. Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown. 446 |
politics | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union
) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest... |
Reception | Olive Schreiner | The book was a particular delight to women readers, but its popularity extended to people of both genders and all classes. Lady Constance Lytton
later recalled that her father and the artist George Frederic Watts |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was sent to Holloway
in London for two weeks for breaking government-office windows in a suffrage demonstration: It pleases me still to remember that the War Office
fell to my pacifist hand. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 140 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway
, having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
and Lady Sybil Smith
outside the House of Commons
. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 144-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | They declined Ramsay MacDonald
's offer to be best man, not wanting the publicity. They were now constant companions, having belonged long ago to the same walking club and to the United Suffragists
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Sitwell | ES
's mother
, through her involvement with a forger, confidence trickster, and blackmailer, Julian Osgood Field
, was convicted of fraud and sent to Holloway Prison
for three months. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 43 |
politics | Ethel Smyth | ES
was arrested for throwing a stone through a window at the house of Lewis Harcourt
, Colonial Secretary, and was imprisoned in Holloway
. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber. 112-13, 115 |
Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | |
politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini
) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré
worked for the Red Cross
in... |
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