Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

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Overview

Lady Constance Lytton, daughter of a Viceroy of India, seemed the most unlikely of suffragettes. Witnessing the trial of Emmeline and Christobel Pankhurst, she was converted to the cause of women's suffrage. Constance changed her life, rejected her aristocratic background, and acquired a purpose. As an activist Lytton disguised her identity to avoid privileged treatment and when arrested, and subsequently jailed, went on hunger strike, being force-fed eight times. Constance Lytton became both an inspiration and a martyr.

Lyndsey Jenkins is a political speechwriter who has written for some of the United Kingdom's most influential politicians.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849547956
Publisher: Biteback Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 09/08/2015
Pages: 356
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lyndsey Jenkins: Lyndsey Jenkins is a speechwriter from north London who has written for some of the UK’s most influential politicians. Lady in Disguise is her first book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Foreword by Dr Helen Pankhurst xiii
Prologue xvii

Chapter One: Diplomat’s Daughter 1
Chapter Two: A Misfit among Eccentrics 25
Chapter Three: The Ponsonbys 41
Chapter Four: The Cause 75
Chapter Five: The Pankhursts 99
Chapter Six: Holloway 117
Chapter Seven: Militant 131
Chapter Eight: Becoming Jane 153
Chapter Nine: Conciliation 167
Chapter Ten: Betrayal 183
Chapter Eleven: Paralysis 195
Chapter Twelve: The Price of Victory 217

Afterword 239
Notes 243
Sources 265
Index 273
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