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Holloway Brooch
The Holloway brooch was presented by the Women's Social and Political Union (WPSU) to women who had been imprisoned at Holloway Prison for militant suffragette activity. It is also referred to as the "Portcullis badge", the "Holloway Prison brooch" and the "Victoria Cross of the Union". Background Beginning in 1902 Holloway Prison was a female-only prison in London, England. In the early part of the twentieth century many suffragettes were incarcerated at the prison. As their actions became more militant the women received more severe sentences. Once in prison the women continued their protests, eventually going on hunger strikes as they demanded to be designated as "political prisoners". Holloway brooch The Holloway brooch was designed by Sylvia Pankhurst. Made of silver, it depicts the portcullis symbol of Parliament and a broad arrow, associated with prison uniforms, in purple, white, and green enamel. The brooches were given to suffragettes upon their release from Holloway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Social And Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1918. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia; Sylvia was eventually expelled. The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. Emmeline Pankhurst described them as engaging in a "reign of terror". Group members heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to or introduced chemicals into postboxes thus injuring several postal workers, and committed a series of arsons that killed at least five people and injured at least 24. When imprisoned, the group's members engaged in hunger strikes and were subject to force-feeding. Emmeline Pankhurst said the group's goal was "to make En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Ann Bland
Violet Ann Bland (17 December 1863 – 21 March 1940) was an English suffragette and hotelier who wrote about her experiences being force fed in prison. Early life and career Bland was born in Bayston Hill, Shropshire, the oldest of nine children of railway fitter William Henry Bland and his wife Violet. via: system reference After school she became a kitchen maid at Dudmaston Hall, near Bridgenorth. Ten years later, she was offering furnished accommodation “with good cooking” in Cirencester, first in a modest house and then in Gloucester House, a large Queen Anne mansion in Dyer Street. She acquired three new houses, renting out two of them. By 1905 she was running a Ladies College of Domestic Science in Henley Grove, Bristol, a fifteen-bedroom parkland mansion, offering classes in hygienic cooking, food values, and gymnastics. By 1906 she had turned Henley Grove into a boutique hotel. Suffragette activism In Bristol, Bland became active in the Women's Social and Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Bessie New
Edith Bessie New (17 March 1877 – 2 January 1951) was an English suffragette A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members .... She was one of the first two suffragettes to use vandalism as a tactic. She and Mary Leigh were surprised to find their destruction was celebrated and they were pulled triumphantly by lines of suffragettes on their release in 1908. Early life She was born Edith Bessie New at 24 North Street, Swindon, one of five children of Isabella (née Frampton; 1850–1922), a music teacher, and Frederick James New, a railway clerk, who died when Edith was less than a year old when he was hit and killed by a train. By age 14, she was working as a teacher, later moving to East London in 1901. Suffrage activism In the early 1900s New left her teaching career and beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Martin
Selina Martin (21 November 1882 – 1972) was a member of the Suffragette, suffragette movement in the early 20th century. She was arrested several times. Her Hunger Strike Medal given 'for Valour' by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was sold at auction in Nottingham in 2019. Early life Born on 21 November 1882, in Ulverston, History of Lancashire, Lancashire, England, Selina Martin was the daughter of Elizabeth Martin and the seventh of her 11 living children. Her father was a picture framer and book seller. Women's suffrage In March 1909, Selina Martin was the Lancaster representative among a delegation of suffragettes led by Emily Pankhurst and Georgina Solomon seeking to speak with the Prime Minister at the House of Commons. The women were arrested and imprisoned. On 21 December 1909, Selina Martin and Leslie Hall (Laetitia Withall), again directly approached the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith as he was leaving his motor car, and tackled him on the subject of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Lewis (suffragette)
Anna Lewis (1889–1976) was a British suffragette, member of the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Lewis was imprisoned at least three times, went on hunger strike and was force-fed by the authorities, fighting the cause of women's rights to vote. Lewis was awarded the Holloway brooch (twice) and the WPSU Hunger Strike Medal on 10 February 1914 'for Valour'''.'' Her medals were auctioned to a private buyer for over £27,000, one of the highest prices for such items in May 2019. Family Beatrice Anna Lewis was born in 1889 and grew up in Holt, in Wales, and she died at the age of 87, in Worthing, England, in 1976. Lewis had a sister and four children, at least two daughters, one of whom described Lewis as "a woman born before her time". Lewis had resented the limitations of being a female in that era, and her husband served in the Royal Air Force and had chosen to travel unaccompanied overseas. Lewis had also been given more children than was recommended on heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Geraldine Lennox
Laura Geraldine Lennox (27 April 1883 – 1958), was a suffragette and a volunteer in Paris during the First World War. Biography Laura Geraldine Lennox was born in Durrus, West Cork in 27 April 1883 to Edward and Adelaide Lennox. She spent some time living in Cork city where she went to school, before she went to London where she became well known as a suffragette. She was one of the 500,000 women who marched in Hyde Park, London on Sunday 21 June 1908 protesting their right to the vote. Lennox was responsible for organising the Irish women involved. By 1910 Lennox was working for the ''Votes for Women'' newspaper and she was involved in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). When Christabel Pankhurst was writing for the new paper called the Suffragette in 1912, Lennox was the sub-editor. Lennox was arrested in April 1913 when the offices of the WSPU was raided. She was sentenced to 6 months in Bristol Prison where she became one of the women who underwent hunger strik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Edith Gliddon
Katie Edith Gliddon (6 May 1883 – 1 September 1967) was a British watercolour artist and militant suffragette. She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) for whom she campaigned for which she was imprisoned in HM Prison Holloway, Holloway Prison in 1912. Specialising in painting flowers, in her later years she was a teacher of painting and drawing. Early years Gliddon was born in Twickenham in Middlesex in 1883, the daughter of Margaret Martha ''née'' Lelean (1860–1941) and Aurelius James Louis Gliddon (1857-1929), a minister for the United Reformed Church (1882–1884) and a Homeopathy, homeopathist. The 1911 Census lists him as a General Merchant and Investment Broker and Katie Edith as an artist, she having studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1900 to 1904 under Frederick Brown (artist), Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks. Her younger sister Gladys Evelyn Gliddon (1886-1969) was also listed as an artist. Her younger brother Lt. Maurice Gli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Giveen
Clara Elizabeth Giveen, also known as Betty Giveen, later Mrs Betty Brewster (1887–1967) was a British suffragette. She was known for an arson attack on the grandstand at the Hurst Park Racecourse in 1913, and for her "Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913, cat and mouse" imprisonment. Biography Giveen was born in 1887 in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland. According to her National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery biography, she was radicalised by witnessing the brutal treatment of women at the hands of the police at the 1910 Black Friday (1910), Black Friday demonstration outside the Palace of Westminster, and joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She took part in a number of WSPU actions, including a 1910 demonstration in Downing Street where she was arrested for obstruction but not charged. She was arrested again on 21 November 1911 and imprisoned for five days for breaking windows at a local government board office. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Garnett
Theresa Garnett (17 May 1888 – 24 May 1966) was a British suffragette. She was a serial protester who sometimes went by the name 'Annie O'Sullivan', was jailed and then still refused to cooperate. She assaulted Winston Churchill while carrying a whip. She retired from her militancy after the suffragette movement decided to commit arson as part of its protests. She was honorary editor of a women's right's magazine in 1960. Early life Theresa Garnett was born in Leeds in 1888,Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Garnett, (Frances) Theresa (1888–1966)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 30 Oct 2017/ref> daughter to Joshua Garnett and Frances Theresa Garnett''Women of the right spirit: paid organiser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Williams Evans
Kate Williams Evans (1 October 1866 – 2 February 1961) was a Welsh suffragette, activist and campaigner for Women's suffrage, women's rights. She was imprisoned in HM Prison Holloway, Holloway Prison where she went on hunger strike for which she received the Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal which was sold to Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales for £48,640 in 2018. Life Kate Williams Evans was born in 1866 in Llanymynech in Montgomeryshire, to William Dorsett Evans (1832-1892), a successful farmer, and Mary ''née'' Williams (1838-). She had four siblings: one brother and three sisters. In 1891 she was living with her family on the family estate Bod Gwilym at Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain. In her youth she developed an interest in politics and during a stay in Paris during the 1890s she became interested in women's suffrage. On her return home she met members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and by her mid 30s Evans was an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Davison
Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Epsom Derby, 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. Davison grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking jobs as a teacher and governess. She joined the WSPU in November 1906 and became an officer of the organisation and a chief steward during marches. She soon became known in the organisation for her militant action; her tactics included breaking windows, throwing stones, setting fire to postboxes, Suffrag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louie (Louisa) Cullen
Louie Cullen (1876 – 24 July 1960) was a British suffragette and hunger striker who emigrated to Australia to continue her feminist activism. She was imprisoned for her activist work, and was awarded a Holloway brooch. Life Born Louisa Clarissa Mays in 1877, she preferred to be called Louie but is called Louise in some references. She left school at 14 and worked for some time before in 1900, she married a working-class man, Joshua William Cullen, who was sympathetic to the call for women to have the right to vote. Suffrage, imprisonment and recognition Cullen became a radical suffragette, joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) near its start, when there were no formal branches and by 1906 was the organiser of the Kensal branch in London. In that year, Cullen and Hannah Mitchell had smuggled a 'Votes for Women' banner into the House of Commons whilst there with nineteen others and Emmeline Pankhurst and left during the scene caused when they opened up thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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