Suffragette hunger strikes begin
1909 · Event
Refused political-prisoner status, Marion Wallace Dunlop stops eating — and is released in 91 hours. The tactic spreads through the imprisoned movement at once, and the government's answer, force-feeding by rubber tube, hands the suffragettes their most harrowing propaganda: torture, administered by the state, to women asking for the vote.
On these timelines: Votes for Women, Women in history, England, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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