Holloway Prison

Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .

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.

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.

SP was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Holloway , but not to hard labour. Supporters marched past Holloway with banners reading Six Months for Telling the Truth.

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).

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...

MG was arrested and sent to Holloway Prison in London on a charge of sedition (that is, of working for the enemy in the first world war).

ES was arrested for throwing a stone through a window at the house of Lewis Harcourt , Colonial Secretary, and was imprisoned in Holloway .

CL was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway for refusing to be turned back by the police as one of a deputation to the Prime Minister .

Frequent prisoner of conscience PA was awarded the Holloway Prison Green Arm Band.

CL , with other suffragists imprisoned with her a month before, were released from Holloway Prison , having first been allowed to read, for the first time, the letters sent them during that month.

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...

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.

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 .

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...