Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

By Constance Lytton, Constance Bulwer-Lytton, Jane Warton, et al.

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108022227
• ISBN13: 9781108022224
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"