Women’s Suffrage is better known today through images of Emmeline Pankhurst (who had read pamphlets authored by Shaw during her period of imprisonment in 1912), and militant acts such as Emily ...
In October 1913, a ‘militant’ hunger-striking suffragette on release from Warwick Prison under the so-called ‘cat and mouse’ act was taken out from her temporary abode in a Leamington Nursing ...
Cicely Lucas was, by this time, a fierce and outspoken suffragette, taking part in marches and attending meetings. As she ‘possessed the schoolmistress’s voice, a carrying rather than a shouting ...
Cicely (pronounced Size-ly) Lucas’s story is the fascinating record of a woman who overcame a troubled childhood, stood up for women’s rights, and achieved her ambition to become a teacher ...
Cicely was now safe with her brother, but all her money was in France and she couldn’t access it. The answer was to find teaching work again and soon Cicely ...