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Margaret Hewitt (suffragette)
Margaret Hewitt (1800s–1900s) was a British suffragette employed by the Women's Social and Political Union. She was involved in protests in 1909 and arrested. She was chosen to visit the Eagle House (suffragette's rest), Eagle House aka "Suffragette's Rest" where a plaque commemorated her planting holly bush in the arboretum for leading suffragettes. Life Hewitt's early life is unknown. In 1908 she came to notice when she interrupted Lord Carrington as he arrived in Manchester to give him a copy of the newspaper ''Votes for Women''. Carrington told her to send it to him by post. She was also campaigning that month in Greater Manchester at Altrincham, Altringham and organising the collecting stewards for a suffragist meeting in Heaton Park. In 1909 suffragettes were arrested for obstruction during a visit by Winston Churchill because they refused to leave the meeting place. Those taken to court were Edith Rigby, Grace Alderman, Catherine Worthington and Beth Hesmondhalgh. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eagle House (suffragette's Rest)
Eagle House is a Grade II* listed building in Batheaston, Somerset, near Bath. Before World War I the house had extensive grounds. When Emily Blathwayt and her husband Colonel Linley Blathwayt owned the house, its summerhouse was used, from 1909 to 1912, as a refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes. It became known as the Suffragette's Rest or Suffragette's Retreat. Emily Blathwayt was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union. Between April 1909 and July 1911, trees were planted in the grounds to commemorate individual suffragettes; at least 47 were planted in a two-acre (8094 m2) site. Known as Annie's Arboretum, after Annie Kenney, the trees were destroyed in the 1960s when a council estate was built. Only one tree, an Australian Pine planted in 1909 by Rose Lamartine Yates, remains. Architecture and history The two-storey bath stone house has ashlar quoins and a slate roof. There is an ionic doorcase with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
