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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... |
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 | 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 | 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 | Pat Arrowsmith | Frequent prisoner of conscience PA
was awarded the Holloway Prison
Green Arm Band. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. |
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... |
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