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politics | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament
in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison
. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
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 | 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... |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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