Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mabel Purves
Standard Name: Purves, Mabel
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February 1913: Four women prisoners—Margaret Cousins, Margaret...
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February 1913
Four women prisoners—Margaret Cousins
, Margaret Connery
, Barbara Hoskins
, and Mabel Purves
—went on a hunger strike for six days at Tullamore Prison to demand political prisoner status.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
