Holloway Prison

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...

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.

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...

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.

CPG 's The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture, published this year in New York and London, was passed from one incarcerated suffragist to another in Holloway Prison .

The book was a particular delight to women readers, but its popularity extended to people of both genders and all classes. Lady Constance Lytton later recalled that her father and the artist George Frederic Watts

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. As well as...

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...

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...

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...

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...