Prisons and Prisoners - Some Personal Experiences (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Constance Lytton
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	356
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-02222-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-108-02222-7
Barcode:	9781108022224

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