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Prisons and Prisoners Constance Lytton

Prisons and Prisoners By Constance Lytton

Prisons and Prisoners by Constance Lytton


Summary

Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton (1869-1923) was a passionate suffragette and was imprisoned numerous times for her involvement in protests. This book, first published in 1914, is her vivid and moving description of prison conditions, hunger strikes and the trauma of force-feeding. A tale of inspiring stoicism.

Prisons and Prisoners Summary

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton

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

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.

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NLS9781108022224
9781108022224
1108022227
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-02-17
356
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