Elsa Gye
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Elsa Gye was a music student at Guildhall who became a suffragette and involved in disruptive events in London and Scotland and was imprisoned for the cause of women's suffrage.
Charlotte Marsh, Dorothy Radcliffe and Elsa Gye on 22 December 1908 ready to welcome Christabel Pankhurst as she left prison
Rachel Barrett
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Rachel Barrett was a Welsh suffragette and newspaper editor born in Carmarthen. Educated at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth she became a science teacher, but quit her job in 1906 on hea
Elsa Gye
…her surname and became Dr W.E. Gye. During Churchill's campaign for the by-election in 1908 in Dundee, after losing his seat in Peckham, Gye went with Rachel Barrett and Helen Fraser to over 200 meetings, spoke at factories and at the large Gaiety Theatre in Dundee, gathering crowds to hear them criticising the Prime…
The statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Westminster. Barrett played a key role in raising the funds to erect this memorial