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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 attention at the time, but she was treated
differently than other suffragettes because of her class-when other
suffragettes were forcibly fed while on hunger strikes, she was
released. "Jane Warton," however, was forcibly fed, an act that
permanently damaged Lytton's health, but that also became a
singular moment in the history of women's and prisoner's rights.
This Broadview edition includes news articles, reviews, and
illustrations on women's suffrage from the periodicals of the time.
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