Prisons and Prisoners (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century)

by Constance Lytton and Jane Warton

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Prisons and Prisoners is the autobiography of aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton. In it, she details her militant actions in the struggle to gain the vote for women, including her masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class "Jane Warton." As a member of a well-known political family (and grand-daughter of the famous novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton), Lytton's arrests garnered much attention at the time, but she was treated differently than other suffragettes because of her class-when other suffragettes were forcibly fed while on hunger strikes, she was released. "Jane Warton," however, was forcibly fed, an act that permanently damaged Lytton's health, but that also became a singular moment in the history of women's and prisoner's rights.

This Broadview edition includes news articles, reviews, and illustrations on women's suffrage from the periodicals of the time.
  • ISBN10 0860686825
  • ISBN13 9780860686828
  • Publish Date 30 June 1988 (first published 16 September 1976)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 March 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Virago Press Ltd
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English