Mary Ann Aldham was an English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union who was imprisoned at least seven times. She went on hunger strike in prison where she was force-fed for
Mary Ann Aldham in a Home Office surveillance photograph (c. 1914)
Mary Ann Aldham signed the Suffragette Handkerchief, HM Prison Holloway 1912
Portrait of Henry James. This portrait of Henry James by John Singer Sargent was slashed by Aldham at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1914
A newspaper cutting from 1914 concerning Aldham's attack at the Royal Academy
Edith Doreen Allen was an English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union, who on being imprisoned was force-fed, for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal 'For Va
Mary Ann Aldham
…together. On another occasion women performed a scene from The Merchant of Venice with Evaline Hilda Burkitt as Shylock and the role of Nerissa played by Doreen Allen. During her time in Holloway she and her fellow inmates signed The Suffragette Handkerchief which was subsequently embroidered by Janie Terrero. Aldham…
Cartoon of a woman in suffragette colours smashing windows.
Force feeding suffragettes on hunger strike