Holloway Prison

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...

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

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).

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 .

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

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...

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...

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...