Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Sitwell | ES
's mother
, through her involvement with a forger, confidence trickster, and blackmailer, Julian Osgood Field
, was convicted of fraud and sent to Holloway Prison
for three months. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | They declined Ramsay MacDonald
's offer to be best man, not wanting the publicity. They were now constant companions, having belonged long ago to the same walking club and to the United Suffragists
, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton
, a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison
, Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 152-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | On 5 March 1912 EP
was again thrown into Holloway, along with a great many other suffragettes. During this incarceration she cultivated a friendship with composer Ethel Smyth
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969. 106 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
| Health | Jean Rhys | Before passing sentence on JR
, the judge ordered a psychiatric assessment. Although she was probably declared free of any serious mental illness, she was diagnosed as a hysteric. Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990. 446 |
| Literary Setting | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
had been jailed herself eight times as a prisoner of conscience when she wrote this novel. It is set in Collingwood Prison, an institution closely resembling Holloway Women's Prison
, where Arrowsmith was often... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Pat Arrowsmith | She wrote much of Jericho while serving time in Holloway Prison
, and dedicated it to her same-sex partner, Wendy Butlin
. Arrowsmith, Pat. Jericho. Heretic Books, 1984. prelims Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Lytton | Condemned to Holloway Prison
for her part in a suffrage demonstration and finding that her class status singled her out for favouritism, CL
exercised her right as a prisoner to petition the Home Secretary... |
| Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | |
| politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini
) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré
worked for the Red Cross
in... |
| politics | Ethel Smyth | ES
was arrested for throwing a stone through a window at the house of Lewis Harcourt
, Colonial Secretary, and was imprisoned in Holloway
. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber, 1984. 112-13, 115 |
| politics | Maud Gonne | MG
was arrested and sent to Holloway Prison
in London on a charge of sedition (that is, of working for the enemy in the first world war). McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. Tóibín, Colm. “A Djinn speaks”. London Review of Books, 20 Feb. 2003, pp. 19-24. 21 |
| politics | Pat Arrowsmith | Frequent prisoner of conscience PA
was awarded the Holloway Prison
Green Arm Band. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. |
Timeline
Early November 1885: Four of the six defendants in the W. T. Stead...
National or international item
Early November 1885
Four of the six defendants in the W. T. Stead
abduction case (following his attempt to expose the white slave trade) were found guilty.
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
106, 115
23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...
National or international item
23 October 1906
During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament
, eleven Women's Social and Political Union
supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway
.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
30
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
127
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
126-7
11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...
Building item
11 December 1906
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison
of suffragists arrested on 23 October.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
128-9
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
252-3
May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...
Building item
May 1909
The Women's Social and Political Union
held a Votes for Women Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, London, which netted £5,607 for the suffrage cause.
Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925.
164
5 July 1909: Marion Wallace Dunlop started the first suffrage...
National or international item
5 July 1909
Marion Wallace Dunlop
started the first suffrage hunger-strike after being arrested for stencilling graffitti on the wall of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons; she was released after four days.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
104
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
xi
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
104
Kazantzis, Judith, editor. Women in Revolt: the fight for emancipation: a collection of contemporary documents. Cape, 1968.
30 October 1909: Rose Lamartine Yates planted a tree in Annie's...
National or international item
30 October 1909
Rose Lamartine Yates
planted a tree in Annie's Arboretum (named from Annie Kenney
), a commemorative landscape project begun by Emily
and Mary Blathwayt
at their home, Eagle House at Batheaston, which offered refuge...
20 February 1913: Lilian Lenton was first arrested, after she...
Building item
20 February 1913
Lilian Lenton
was first arrested, after she and another suffragist set fire to a tea-house in Kew Gardens. She became notorious first because of damage to her health by force-feeding when she went on...
10 March 1914: A suffragist, Mary Richardson, slashed the...
Building item
10 March 1914
A suffragist, Mary Richardson
, slashed the Rokeby Venus (the only known female nude by Velasquez
, which shows Venus admiring herself in a mirror) in the National Gallery, London.
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
xii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
13 July 1955: Ruth Ellis was hanged at Holloway Prison...
National or international item
13 July 1955
Ruth Ellis
was hanged at Holloway Prison
in London for the murder of her boyfriend, the last woman in Britain to die by judicial execution.
Ellis, Richard. Ruth Ellis—an alternative view. http://web.archive.org/web/20090318060220/http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html.
2005: Six South London prostitutes, members of...
Building item
2005
Six South London prostitutes, members of a theatre group called Rise
, performed a play entitled Can You See Me?, written by themselves and Emma Bernard
, freelance director.
“Woman’ Hour”. BBC Radio 4.
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