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
.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
251, 299
She had a...
politics
Constance Lytton
CL
, attending a Liverpool suffrage demonstration outside Walton Gaol
in Liverpool, broke the prison governor's windows, and when arrested identified herself as Miss Jane Warton, a working seamstress.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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politics
Constance Lytton
She was motivated by several cases of brutal treatment of ordinary suffragists in prison, and by an exchange she had on this subject with Mary Gawthorpe
. Her idea was to test the difference in...
Textual Production
Constance Lytton
CL
spoke at a mass meeting at Queen's Hall in London about her recent imprisonment, hunger strike, and force feeding by authorities at Walton prison
in Liverpool, who took her for a working-class woman,...
Violence
Constance Lytton
Having been sentenced to fourteen days in Walton Gaol
, Liverpool, with hard labour (with the option of a fine), CL
went on hunger strike. Nobody tested her heart or felt her pulse when...