• I was a late 19th century and early 20th century English suffragette and feminist.
  • My daughter and I founded the suffrage campaigning group the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903.
  • With other suffragettes, I was frequently imprisoned then immediately released.
  • This was done under the ‘Cat and Mouse’ act, a government stratagem to avoid the publicity gained through suffragette hunger strikes.
  • I abandoned my campaign on the outbreak of World War One and in 1926 joined the Conservative Party.
  • Another daughter was also a suffragette as well as a pacifist.

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