Condemned to Holloway Prison
for her part in a suffrage demonstration and finding that her class status singled her out for favouritism, CL
exercised her right as a prisoner to petition the Home Secretary...
The Times's interpretation of their response is not borne out by CL
's own later accounts of the incident. In connection with this group arrest and the furore that followed, the Home Secretary, Herbert John Gladstone
politics
Constance Lytton
On her release, CL
's next project was to turn her experience to good account for the suffrage cause by seeking an official enquiry into practices at Walton Gaol
.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
251, 299
She had a...
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18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
104
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
201-2
May 1919: The Committee on Recruitment in the Civil...
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May 1919
The Committee on Recruitment in the Civil Service
, chaired by Lord Gladstone
, concluded that women are apt to fall behind as the work became more responsible or complex . . . Women do...