ID: 2686
Printed Abstract of the Regulations Relating to the Treatment and Conduct of Convicted Suffragette Prisoners, Holloway
Women's Suffrage
Category: Ephemera
Place/Publisher/Date:
Holloway, No Publisher. c.1910.
Description:
Printed Abstract of the Regulations Relating to the Treatment and Conduct of Convicted Prisoners, outlining 14 rules of conduct, printed recto and verso on stiff card, holes for hanging at upper edge, 330 x 202mm, with a printed lending library order form issued to prisoners with manuscript insertions, 230 x 153mm., dated 29 June [19]13. Holloway became a focal point of the suffragette struggle in the early twentieth century, with more than 300 suffragettes seeing the inside walls of the prison. Holloway Prison made a name for itself for being the site of the Suffragette's hunger strike and consequently the force feeding that the Suffragettes endured beginning with Marion Wallace Dunlop in 1909. This process involved the prison guards forcing tubes down the inmates' throats to ensure that they did not die of malnourishment. The severity and national backlash of this movement led to the Cat and Mouse Act in 1913 which brought in legislation permitting women on hunger strike to be released back into the community, only for them to be re-arrested once deemed healthy enough.
Price £1750.00
