5 July 1909: Marion Wallace Dunlop started the first suffrage...
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5 July 1909
Marion Wallace Dunlop
started the first suffrage hunger-strike after being arrested for stencilling graffitti on the wall of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons; she was released after four days.
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Kazantzis, Judith, editor. Women in Revolt: the fight for emancipation: a collection of contemporary documents. Cape, 1968.