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
| ISBN: | 9781108022224 |
| Publication date: | 17th February 2011 |
| Author: | Constance Lytton |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 356 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century |
| Genres: |
History and Archaeology |