The Suffragette - The History of The Women's Militant Suffrage Movement - 1905-1910 by E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Author:E. Sylvia Pankhurst [Pankhurst, E. Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Revolutionary, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Historical, Political Science, Political Freedom
ISBN: 9781444646184
Google: 687SDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2009-05-27T00:30:23+00:00

Christabel Pankhurst

Iinviting the public to "rush"

the House of Commons at a meeting in

Trafalgar Square, Sunday, October 11th, 1908

The country was now overwhelmed by one of those terribly oppressive heat waves which come upon us suddenly from time to time and are borne with such difficulty in our usually temperate climate, and there gradually leaked out from Holloway accounts of the Suffragist women fainting in the exercise yards and being seized with illness in their cells. There happened to be some cases of measles in the prison hospital, and Miss Elsie Howey, having contracted the disease there, was exceedingly ill for many weeks.

All these things combined to focus public attention upon the harsh treatment of the Suffragette prisoners. On July 10th the Manchester Guardian in a leading Article said:

It demands considerable obtuseness to believe, as some persons apparently do, that close confinement in the heat of Summer or the cold of Winter within a solitary and unwholesome cell, deprival of exercise for twenty-three hours out of the twenty-four, subjection to menial authority, ignorance of the welfare of one's friends, the performing of dull and alien tasks, deprivation of writing materials, partial suffocation and the wearing of ugly, ill-fitting clothing that has already been worn by the vilest criminals, are for delicate and sensitive women the elements of a comedy. They compose a great and terrible torture.... Because they are suffering for an idea their stringent imprisonment is indefensible. It violates the public conscience and the law and the courts cannot wage war on the public conscience without forfeiting respect and authority.

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