Herbert Henry Asquith

The story begins a couple of years before the first world war, with the hostile relationship between the author's grandmother, Pamela, the first Lady Glenconner (a much-quoted hostess and society wit), and Pamela's sister-in-law Margot (Tennant) Asquith

After her release, her account of her continuing campaign both to publicise the suffrage demands and to effect reform of prisons is merged in an account of events on the broader suffrage front: the Conciliation...

On 21 November 1911, when Asquith 's proposal for a Manhood Suffrage Bill brought out the suffragists in force, CL attended as a stone-thrower, armed also with a small hammer.

She worked with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , and became a militant suffragette. Like Constance Lytton , she overcame both natural timidity and physical frailty to take part in demonstrations which were often met with...