In response, in 1909, imprisoned suffragettes began to refuse food, a strategy known as a ‘hunger strike’. Marion Wallace Dunlop of the WSPU became the first imprisoned suffragette to go on ...

This is the second release of new findings published in the book. Militant suffragettes including Sylvia Pankhurst and Emily Davison routinely went on hunger strike and gained publicity from inside ...

A combative and outspoken leader in the women's suffrage movement ... Alice Paul began a hunger strike. Force-fed through tubes and threatened with commitment to an insane asylum, Paul remained ...

One of the tactics used to gain maximum publicity for the cause by suffragettes was the use of hunger strike. This policy was implemented in English prisons from July 1909; as the historian ...

Sentences varied; Barrett got nine months. She went on hunger strike and after five days was released to a suffragette nursing home to recover. When she returned to Holloway Prison, she started ...

And, in a particularly tender moment, Clarice gifted Lucille a silver medal which revealed her involvement in the suffragette movement. Engraved with the words ‘Hunger Strike’, the medal was ...

One of the tactics used to gain maximum publicity for the cause by suffragettes was the use of hunger strike. This policy was implemented in English prisons from July 1909; as the historian ...