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Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Autor Constance Lytton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2011
Lady 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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108022224
ISBN-10: 1108022227
Pagini: 356
Ilustrații: 2 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

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A moving and evocative account of a suffragette's experience of imprisonment, hunger strikes and force-feeding,first published in 1914.

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Prisons and Prisoners is the autobiography of aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton. In it, she details her militant actions in the struggle to gain the vote for women, including her masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class "Jane Warton." As a member of a well-known political family (and grand-daughter of the famous novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton), Lytton's arrests garnered much attention at the time, but she was treated differently than other suffragettes because of her class--when other suffragettes were forcibly fed while on hunger strikes, she was released. "Jane Warton," however, was forcibly fed, an act that permanently damaged Lytton's health, but that also became a singular moment in the history of women's and prisoner's rights.

This Broadview edition includes news articles, reviews, and illustrations on women's suffrage from the periodicals of the time.