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In 1911 she was at home in Norfolk. Marcon would demonstrate in Norwich market for the suffragettes. [1] She became a suffragette and she was released from court with an obligation to keep the peace after she was arrested in 1913. Her arrest arose from a disagreement between the police and protesting suffragettes led by Sylvia Pankhurst. This ...
Clara Mary Lambert aliased as Catherine Wilson; May Stewart or Mary Stewart (1874–1969) was a British frequently-arrested suffragette. She took a hatchet to porcelain in the British Museum, smuggled herself into the House of Commons, committed arson and went on hunger strike during her many arrests.
Lilian Ida Lenton (5 January 1891 – 28 October 1972) was an English dancer and militant suffragette, and later a winner of a French Red Cross medal for her service as an orderly in World War I. [1] She committed crimes, including arson, for the suffragette cause. In 1970 she was invited to unveil the Suffragette Memorial.
While Black, Indigenous, and immigrant women also fought for women's suffrage, their faces are rarely seen in historical imagery celebrating the 19th amendment. Photos give glimpses into the long ...
Elsie Howey (1884 –1963) – suffragette who was jailed at least six times and dressed as Joan of Arc during a WSPU demonstration in London; Ellen Hughes (1867–1927) – Welsh writer, poet, suffragist; Florence Hull (born 1878) – suffragette, member of WSPU, imprisoned in January 1913; Agnes Husband (1852–1929) – Scottish politician ...
Violet Aitken (21 January 1886 – November 1987) was a British suffragette.She was born Marion Violet Aitken and raised in Bedfordshire, and she was the daughter of William Aitken, who became Canon of Norwich Cathedral.