PANKHURST, Christabel.

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Unshackled. First edition, association copy, inscribed by the suffragette Charlotte Marsh on the front free endpaper, "To my dear friend Marian with love and admiration always, Charlie Marsh Christmas 1959". Pankhurst names Marsh in the text as one of the WSPU members "still suffering" in Winson Green prison in 1909 (p. 141), and her portrait appears opposite page 208. Marsh was arrested repeatedly for her violent activism. She first served a month's sentence in Holloway Prison in 1908, and in 1909, after having thrown roof tiles at Herbert Asquith's car in response to being banned from a political meeting, she was sent to Winson Green Prison. There she went on hunger strike and was among the first three suffragette hunger strikers to be force fed. Upon her release in 1909 the newspaper Votes for Women reported that Marsh had been force fed 139 times and the WSPU awarded her a Hunger Strike Medal.

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