Holloway Prison

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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 .

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...

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.

HHR began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union ) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest...