Emily Marion Blathwayt was a British suffragette and mother of Mary Blathwayt. She and her husband, Linley, a retired Colonel from the Indian Army lived at Eagle House in Somerset and established a welcome and garden summerhouse for women in the movement, that became known as the "Suffragette's Rest".
Emily Blathwayt in 1911
Emily Blathwayt watering a tree in 1909 at Eagle House
Mary Blathwayt was a British feminist, suffragette and social reformer. She lived at Eagle House in Somerset. This house became known as the "Suffragette's Rest" and contained a memorial to the protests of 60 suffragists and suffragettes. The memorial was bulldozed in the 1960s.
Blathwayt in 1909
Annie Kenney to the left, Blathwayt at centre and Emmeline Pankhurst, with the spade, at Eagle House in Batheaston in 1910