Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
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Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Sitwell | ES
's mother
, through her involvement with a forger, confidence trickster, and blackmailer, Julian Osgood Field
, was convicted of fraud and sent to Holloway Prison
for three months. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 43 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | They declined Ramsay MacDonald
's offer to be best man, not wanting the publicity. They were now constant companions, having belonged long ago to the same walking club and to the United Suffragists
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | 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
, Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 152-3 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | 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
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969. 106 |
Health | Jean Rhys | Before passing sentence on JR
, the judge ordered a psychiatric assessment. Although she was probably declared free of any serious mental illness, she was diagnosed as a hysteric. Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990. 446 |
Literary Setting | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
had been jailed herself eight times as a prisoner of conscience when she wrote this novel. It is set in Collingwood Prison, an institution closely resembling Holloway Women's Prison
, where Arrowsmith was often... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pat Arrowsmith | She wrote much of Jericho while serving time in Holloway Prison
, and dedicated it to her same-sex partner, Wendy Butlin
. Arrowsmith, Pat. Jericho. Heretic Books, 1984. prelims Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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... |
Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament
in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison
. qtd. in Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996. 127 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | 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. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 101 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987. 153 |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was arrested along with other Sinn Féin
leaders (including Maud Gonne
) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail
; she was not released until 10 March 1919. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 182, 189 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. qtd. in Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996. 127 |
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