Lady Constance Lytton : aristocrat, suffragette, martyr / Lyndsey Jenkins ; foreword by Helen Pankhurst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Lyndsey, author.

Contributor:

Pankhurst, Helen, writer of supplementary textual content.

Flora Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lytton, Constance, Lady, 1869-1923.

Lytton, Constance.

Suffragists--Great Britain--Biography.

Suffragists.

Women prisoners.

Aristocracy (Social class).

Great Britain.

Aristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--Biography.

Women prisoners--Great Britain--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Biteback Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Lady Constance Lytton was the most unlikely of suffragettes. The daughter of a Viceroy of India and herself a lady in waiting to the Queen, a chance encounter with a suffragette suddenly gave her life a purpose. She was converted to the cause of women's suffrage and went to prison, but Constance soon found that her name and class singled her out for privileged treatment. So she decided to go to prison in disguise, getting herself arrested in Liverpool. She was force-fed 8 times before her identity was discovered and she was released.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Diplomat's Daughter

ch. Two A Misfit among Eccentrics

ch. Three The Ponsonbys

ch. Four The Cause

ch. Five The Pankhursts

ch. Six Holloway

ch. Seven Militant

ch. Eight Becoming Jane

ch. Nine Conciliation

ch. Ten Betrayal

ch. Eleven Paralysis

ch. Twelve The Price of Victory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9781849547956

1849547955

OCLC:

907693436

Publisher Number:

99962610920