Emmeline Pankhurst — suffragette
- Creator(s):
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
- Title:
- Letter to Lady Constance [Georgina Bulwer-Lytton]
- Publication/Origin:
- London: 23 March 1914
- Description:
- Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested several times for her militant actions. She wrote this letter about the notorious Holloway Gaol, where she had been on hunger strike and was force-fed. The letter’s recipient, fellow suffragette Lady Constance Lytton, came from one of Britain’s leading families. She had sent Pankhurst a book. Pankhurst writes, “I was allowed to have a wardress with me all night for I was very weak & ill & I gave it to her to read. It was strange to watch her absorbed in reading as I lay on the floor wondering what would happen on the morrow.”
- Citation:
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, Letter to Lady Constance [Georgina Bulwer-Lytton], London: 23 March 1914, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed October 10, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4263