Winson Green

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politics Dora Marsden
DM , Mary Gawthorpe , and Rona Robinson were arrested in their academic gowns at Manchester University after protesting against the recent start of force-feeding at Birmingham's Winson Green Prison .
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990.
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Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsdens Feminism, the Freewoman, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1987, pp. 31-56.
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politics Dora Marsden
This episode contributed to the drive towards the force-feeding of jailed suffragists.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990.
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The women's release was questioned by the Pall Mall Gazette and the Southport Visitor, the latter of which called it a...

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18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...

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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.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
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