![]() Emily Wilding Davison hid in a cupboard in the House ofĬommons on Census Night, 2 April 1911. On 8 May 1909, a suffragette hid for 24 hours under a platform in a hall in Liverpool to interrupt Birrell. There was even another “suffragette in Wherever they could” to get a chance of asking a Government Minister about When suffragettes hid overnight in what Mrs Pankhurst called “dangerous positions, under platforms, in the organs, In addition, there were a number of incidents Not always get the author’s full attention – she wrote sections of the book Kenney’s account was written many years after the events, from memory, and did This was also the title given in the Crawford entry Other day two of our members contrived, during the afternoon, to slip in unobservedĪnd hid in the organ.” Roberts went on quote Vera Holme’s poem, which sheĬalled “ An Organ Record”. To make a note of an amusing parody I read in to-day’s Votes for Women…the The Diary of a Militant Suffragette (1910) which noted on, “I want I also found a passage in Katherine Roberts’s Pages from ![]() One day in the organ/We were weary and ill at ease / We sat there three hours Militant Suffragettes under the title “ An Organ Recital” which read: “Seated This was corroborated by Vera Holme’s verse account, quoted in The Had hidden in the organ during the Saturday afternoon, not on the previous May, Antonia Raeburn gave it as Saturday 1 May. ![]() ![]() While The Women’s Suffrage Movement entry on Holme repeated that the date was 2 ![]()
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