Holloway Prison

Up Hill to Holloway covers MG 's life up to 1906, encompassing in rich detail the experience of her working-class forebears and contemporaries as well as her own. She mentions details about her family's mindset...

MG re-lives the experience of school, and Sunday school, and the teaching career on which she embarked at not yet fourteen. Here again she supplies vivid detail about long-gone objects: writing slates, chronolithographs of Bible...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

In the last few months of her life CL worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria 's...

So Rich a Life includes a detailed account of CC 's month-long stay in Holloway Gaol after her arrest for suffragette activism on 13 October 1908. As well as...

No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public...

The book was a particular delight to women readers, but its popularity extended to people of both genders and all classes. Lady Constance Lytton later recalled that her father and the artist George Frederic Watts

CPG 's The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture, published this year in New York and London, was passed from one incarcerated suffragist to another in Holloway Prison .

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.

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 .

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.

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...

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.

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).

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.