Holloway Prison

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press.
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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.
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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).
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.
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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.
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Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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