Evaline Hilda Burkitt
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Evaline Hilda Burkitt was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union. A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suff
Winson Green Prison in the 1920s
The Pavilion on Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth before and after the arson attack in 1914
Hilda Burkitt c.1905: the 2018 artwork was based on this photograph by her sister Ida Lillian Burkitt
Laura Ainsworth
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Laura Frances Ainsworth was a British teacher and suffragette. She was employed by the Women's Social and Political Union and was one of the first suffragettes to be force-fed. She left the WSPU in 19
Evaline Hilda Burkitt
…for her actions. On arriving in the prison van at Winson Green Prison to begin their sentences Burkitt, Mabel Capper, Mary Leigh, Charlotte Marsh, Laura Ainsworth, Ellen Barnwell, Leslie Hall and Patricia Woodlock were "singing, shewing defiance, threatened to assault prison authorities, and said they would not…
in 1911 - photo by Col Linley Blathwayt
Jezreel's Tower or Temple
Charlotte Marsh is shown here planting a tree at Eagle House witnessed by Annie Kenney, Mary Blathwayt and Ainsworth (3rd from L)