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
The statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Westminster. Barrett played a key role in raising the funds to erect this memorial
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.
Rachel Barrett
…was heavily active for the WSPU, campaigning at the Bury St Edmunds by-election with Gladice Keevil, Nellie Martel, Emmeline Pankhurst, Aeta Lamb and Elsa Gye. She influenced the American student Alice Paul, and both sold copies of Votes for Women. Barrett was also active with Adela Pankhurst at Bradford…
Charlotte Marsh, Dorothy Radcliffe and Elsa Gye on 22 December 1908 ready to welcome Christabel Pankhurst as she left prison