Prisons and Prisoners
Prisons and Prisoners
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USDLady Constance Bulwer-Lytton (1869–1923), granddaughter of writer Edward Bulwer Lytton, became a passionate and militant suffragette after visiting imprisoned activists in 1905. She was arrested twice in 1909, on one occasion for throwing stones at a ministerial car, but was soon released. In 1910, to test whether the treatment of women prisoners differed depending on their class, she created a working-class alter ego, Jane Warton, for a protest in Liverpool. Under that name she was imprisoned and participated in a hunger strike that led to her being force-fed eight times, permanently damaging her health. This account of her experiences, first published in 1914, is a moving insight into the experiences of women who risked their lives and endured great suffering to secure the right to vote. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=lyttco
Product details
February 2011Paperback
9781108022224
356 pages
216 × 140 × 20 mm
0.45kg
2 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Dedication
- 1. Introduction
- 2. My conversion
- 3. A deputation to the Prime Minister
- 4. Police Court trial
- 5. Holloway Prison: my first imprisonment
- 6. The hospital
- 7. Some types of prisoner
- 8. 'A track to the water's edge'
- 9. From the cells
- 10. Newcastle: police station cell
- 11. Newcastle prison: my second imprisonment
- 12. Jane Watson
- 13. Walton Gaol, Liverpool: my third imprisonment
- 14. The Home Office
- 15. The Conciliation Bill
- 16. Holloway Prison: my fourth imprisonment.
