Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Constance Lytton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155111593X ISBN 13: 9781551115931

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Jason Haslam is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University and the author of Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives (University of Toronto Press, 2005).

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155111593X
• ISBN 13: 9781551115931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372