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Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette, in a bath chair, London, June 1914. Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) is shown here in her severely weakened state caused by numerous hunger, thirst and sleep strikes. She had a team of bodyguards composed of suffragettes and male supporters who tried to prevent police from re-arresting her while she was released from Holloway Gaol under the terms of the Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for III-Health Act, usually called the 'Cat and Mouse' Act. Suffragettes were allowed to go on hunger strike but once they became ill they were released. When they had recovered, the police re-arrested them and returned them to prison in order that they completed their sentences..
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HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1910s
20th century
ACT
ACTIVISM
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Avenue
B&W
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bath chair
Black & White
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bodyguard
building
BUILDINGS
CAMPAIGN
Carrying
Cat and Mouse Act
Chair
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East End
England
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Female
Feminism
Furniture
Health
Historica Graphica Collection
House
hunger strike
ILL
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Law
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London
Male
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Pankhurst
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Politics
Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act
PROFESSION
Protest
RIGHTS
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Sylvia
Sylvia Pankhurst
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Woman
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women's liberation
women's movement
WOMEN'S RIGHTS