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
Eagle House (suffragette's rest)
Eagle House is a Grade II* listed building in Batheaston, Somerset, near Bath. Before World War I the house had extensive grounds.
Eagle House in 2010
Eagle House c. 1890
Annie Kenney to the left, Mary Blathwayt at centre and Emmeline Pankhurst, with the spade, at Eagle House in 1910
Annie's Arboretum at Eagle House c.1910