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  • Prisons Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    Lytton details her arrest and subsequent imprisonment, offering insights into the conditions of British prisons and the treatment of political prisoners, particularly suffragettes. She vividly describes the physical and psychological challenges she encountered, including the harshness of confinement, the lack of basic amenities, and the disdainful attitudes of prison officials toward women who ... Read more

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  • Prisons and Prisoners

    Some Personal Experiences

    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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

    A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women's suffrage movement and women's voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women—across ... Read more

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    Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (Unabridged)

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    8 hours 24 min

    Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym so that her titled status wouldn't be obvious. This book chronicles her involvement in the suffrage movement, including her arrest and subsequent incarceration at Holloway Prison, a place notorious for the poor ... Read more

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  • The Strange Death of Liberal England

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    This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England at the time. The country was preparing even then for its entrance ... Read more

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  • Roads to Ruin

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