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'Does full justice to the remarkable achievements of an unlikely
martyr' Mail on Sunday 'A fascinating study of a handful of the
potential motivations behind violent political acts through the
balanced examination of a remarkable woman' All About History Lady
Constance Lytton (1869-1923) was the most unlikely of suffragettes.
One of the elite, she was the daughter of a Viceroy of India and a
lady in waiting to the Queen. She grew up in the family home of
Knebworth and in embassies around the world. For forty years, she
did nothing but devote herself to her family, denying herself the
love of her life and possible careers as a musician or a reviewer.
Then came a chance encounter with a suffragette. Constance was
intrigued; witnessing Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst on trial
convinced her of the urgent necessity of votes for women and she
went to prison for the cause as gleefully as any child going on a
school trip. But, once jailed, Constance soon found that her name
and her connections singled her out for unwelcome special
treatment. By now, 1909, the suffragettes were hunger striking and
the government had retaliated with force-feeding. The stories that
began to leak out of bungled operations, of dirty tubes, of screams
halfheard through brick walls, of straitjackets and handcuffs
outraged the suffragettes. Constance decided on her most radical
step yet: to go to prison in disguise. Taking the name Jane Warton,
she cut her hair, put on glasses and ugly clothes and got herself
arrested in Liverpool. Once in prison, she was force-fed eight
times before her identity was discovered and she was released. Her
case became a cause celebre, with debate raging in The Times and
questions being asked in the House of Commons. Lady Constance
Lytton became an inspiration and, in the end, a martyr. In this
extraordinary new biography, Lyndsey Jenkins reveals for the first
time the fascinating story of the woman who abandoned a life of
privilege to fight for women s rights.
Vincent van Gogh becomes only 37 years old. Only the last 10 years
of his life he is engaged in painting. Restlessly and exhausting he
travels through the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and France.
Together with his colleagues Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin
he is regarded today as one of the most important artists of the
expressionism movement. This comic guide, written and drawn by
Willi Bloss, catches the main marks of the master's life and refers
optically to the unerring style that van Gogh used for his sketches
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