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  • Prisons and Prisoners

    Some Personal Experiences

    by Constance Lytton ...
    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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Prisons Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    by Lady Constance Lytton ...
    Lytton details her arrest and subsequent imprisonment, offering insights into the conditions of British prisons and the treatment of political prisoners, particularly suffragettes. She vividly describes the physical and psychological challenges she encountered, including the harshness of confinement, the lack of basic amenities, and the disdainful attitudes of prison officials toward women who ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    by Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton ...
    Some of the experiences which I have to record are of so unusual a character that I think it will help to a better understanding on the part of my readers if I briefly outline the drift of my existence before I became aware of the women’s movement, and in touch with that section of it known as the “Militant Suffragettes.” My father had been dead fifteen years and I was thirty-nine years old in ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (Unabridged)

    by CONSTANCE LYTTON ...
    Narrated by Luann Martinez ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym so that her titled status wouldn't be obvious. This book chronicles her involvement in the suffrage movement, including her arrest and subsequent incarceration at Holloway Prison, a place notorious for the poor ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

    A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    by Dawn Durante, Nancy A. Hewitt, Laura L. Behling, Erin Cassese, Mary Chapman, M. Margaret Conway, Carolyn Daniels, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ellen Carol Dubois, Julie A. Gallagher0, Barbara Green1, Leonie Huddy2, Kimberly Jensen3, Mary-Kate Lizotte4, Lady Constance Lytton5, Andrea G Radke-Moss6 ...
    100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women's suffrage movement and women's voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women—across ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Victorian Prison Lives

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    Victorian Prison Lives is the first account of the process of imprisionment in England between 1830 and 1914 to be drawn largely from the writings of prisoners themselves. The period was in some ways one of great change, beginning with an astonishing penitentiary experiement when prisons were seen as moral hospitals. But this approach eventually gave way to the idea of penal servitude and created ... Read more

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