Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
251, 299
Herbert John, Viscount Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, Herbert John,,, Viscount
Used Form: Lord Gladstone
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Lytton | 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... |
| politics | Constance Lytton | She attended a preparatory meeting at Queen's Hall on Monday the 12th, and offered her services the next day to the leaders, Emmeline Pankhurst
, Christabel Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
. They asked her... |
| politics | Constance Lytton | The Times's interpretation of their response is not borne out by CL
's own later accounts of the incident. In connection with this group arrest and the furore that followed, the Home Secretary, Herbert John Gladstone |
| politics | Constance Lytton | On her release, CL
's next project was to turn her experience to good account for the suffrage cause by seeking an official enquiry into practices at Walton Gaol
. |
Timeline
18 September 1909
Women's Social and Political Union
members Mary Leigh
and Charlotte Marsh
, imprisoned in Winson Green
, Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone
to be forcibly fed.
May 1919
The Committee on Recruitment in the Civil Service
, chaired by Lord Gladstone
, concluded that women are apt to fall behind as the work became more responsible or complex . . . Women do...