Prisons and Prisoners
Some Personal Experiences

A moving and evocative account of a suffragette's experience of imprisonment, hunger strikes and force-feeding,first published in 1914.

Constance Lytton (Author)

9781108022224, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

356 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.45 kg

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

Dedication
1. Introduction
2. My conversion
3. A deputation to the Prime Minister
4. Police Court trial
5. Holloway Prison: my first imprisonment
6. The hospital
7. Some types of prisoner
8. 'A track to the water's edge'
9. From the cells
10. Newcastle: police station cell
11. Newcastle prison: my second imprisonment
12. Jane Watson
13. Walton Gaol, Liverpool: my third imprisonment
14. The Home Office
15. The Conciliation Bill
16. Holloway Prison: my fourth imprisonment.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]