Holloway Prison

Most of her prison sentences were served in Holloway Women's Prison , one of the largest in Britain. In her autobiography she remarks wryly that she often wished the various magistrates and judges who have...

ES spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway , having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Lady Sybil Smith outside the House of Commons .

CL wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney told her that as a working-class woman she had...

CC took part in the rush on the House of Commons led by Christabel Pankhurst . She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol , becoming the...

HHR began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union ) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest...

Again she went through the process of arrest (and again encountered a sympathiser among women officials). Despite falling ill during the process, she attended the police station for sentencing, and was condemned to two weeks'...

CD had been arrested and imprisoned in Holloway four times.

Lady Constance Lytton recorded how CD (whose leadership qualities she warmly admired) was committed to Holloway Prison early in 1909. She described the meeting there between Despard and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , when the two women's...

MG was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison .

On her release from HollowaySP was greeted by a crowd of Communist supporters waving red flags; the Daily Herald headlined its account The Little Woman in the Doorway.

Constance, Countess Markievicz, was arrested along with other Sinn Féin leaders (including Maud Gonne ) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail ; she was not released until 10 March 1919.

It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.

Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .

DM was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU deputation to Parliament . She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison and her experience garnered much media attention.

SP was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Holloway , but not to hard labour. Supporters marched past Holloway with banners reading Six Months for Telling the Truth.