Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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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 |
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 |
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). McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. Tóibín, Colm. “A Djinn speaks”. London Review of Books, pp. 19-24. 21 |
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 |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | Frequent prisoner of conscience PA
was awarded the Holloway Prison
Green Arm Band. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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