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  • Prisons and Prisoners

    Some Personal Experiences

    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 ... Read more

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  • Prisons Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    Lytton details her arrest and subsequent imprisonment, offering insights into the conditions of British prisons and the treatment of political prisoners, particularly suffragettes. She vividly describes the physical and psychological challenges she encountered, including the harshness of confinement, the lack of basic amenities, and the disdainful attitudes of prison officials toward women who ... Read more

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    Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym so that her titled status wouldn't be obvious. This book chronicles her involvement in the suffrage movement, including her arrest and subsequent incarceration at Holloway Prison, a place notorious for the poor ... Read more

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  • Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    A Personal Journey Through Prison: A Victorian Activist's Fight for Reform

    In "Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences," Constance Lady Lytton delves into the harrowing realities of incarceration, intertwining personal anecdotes with a critical examination of the penal system in early 20th-century Britain. Written in a compelling and accessible literary style, the book merges narrative storytelling with sociopolitical commentary, exposing the injustices faced by ... Read more

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  • Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    Some of the experiences which I have to record are of so unusual a character that I think it will help to a better understanding on the part of my readers if I briefly outline the drift of my existence before I became aware of the women’s movement, and in touch with that section of it known as the “Militant Suffragettes.” My father had been dead fifteen years and I was thirty-nine years old in ... Read more

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  • 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

    A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women's suffrage movement and women's voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women—across ... Read more

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