Holloway Prison

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).

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

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...

Again she went through the process of arrest (and again encountered a sympathiser among women officials). Despite falling ill during the process, she attended the police station for sentencing, and was condemned to two weeks'...

No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public...

In the last few months of her life CL worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria 's...

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 .

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.

Condemned to Holloway Prison for her part in a suffrage demonstration and finding that her class status singled her out for favouritism, CL exercised her right as a prisoner to petition the Home Secretary...

The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton , a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison ,

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.

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).

On 5 March 1912 EP was again thrown into Holloway, along with a great many other suffragettes. During this incarceration she cultivated a friendship with composer Ethel Smyth .

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.

Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .