Drawings of life in Holloway gaol

ID:

50.82/1233

Production date:

1913

Location:

In Store

Sketchbook entitled 'Drawings of life in Holloway gaol' Drawn on prison issue toilet paper by the suffragette prisoner Florence Hull.
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Sketchbook entitled 'Drawings of life in Holloway gaol' Drawn on prison issue toilet paper by the suffragette prisoner Florence Hull.

Florence was Secretary of the Letchworth Branch of the Women's Social & Political Union. She created the sketchbook whilst serving a two week prison sentence for smashing a window in the Colonial Office during the Suffragette demonstration of 29th January 1913.

She later wrote of her prison experience in the Suffragette newspaper:

All through the night, at intervals of less than an hour, a warder would open the wooden windows and ask, 'Are you all right?'. If a wardress was in charge too, she was not in evidence. There is a plank fitted up in the cell; half is used for a bed, the other half for a lavatory, the plug being pulled by a warder outside when he deems fit'

Florence also used the alias Mary Gray. < Hide

Measurements

H 162 mm; L 120 mm; D 5 mm

Materials

paper

Last Updated

2024-03-14