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politics | Pat Arrowsmith | 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... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | 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. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 140 |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney
told her that as a working-class woman she had... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway
, having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
and Lady Sybil Smith
outside the House of Commons
. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 144-5 |
politics | Clara Codd | CC
took part in the rush on the House of Commons
led by Christabel Pankhurst
. She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol
, becoming the... |
politics | Constance Lytton | Again she went through the process of arrest (and again encountered a sympathiser among women officials). Despite falling ill during the process, she attended the police station for sentencing, and was condemned to two weeks'... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | |
politics | Ethel Smyth | ES
was arrested for throwing a stone through a window at the house of Lewis Harcourt
, Colonial Secretary, and was imprisoned in Holloway
. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber. 112-13, 115 |
politics | Charlotte Despard | Lady Constance Lytton
recorded how CD
(whose leadership qualities she warmly admired) was committed to Holloway Prison
early in 1909. She described the meeting there between Despard and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, when the two women's... |
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. 182, 189 |
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
. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU
deputation to Parliament
. She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison
and her experience garnered much media attention. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 30-2 |
politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini
) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré
worked for the Red Cross
in... |
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. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
advised the gaolers at Holloway Prison
in London that suffragettes ought not to be treated as criminals but rather as political prisoners (who received better treatment during their incarceration). Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 85-6 |
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