Suffragette panel

ID:

50.82/1496

Production date:

1912

Location:

In Store

Janie Terrero embroidered this panel while serving a 4 month sentence with hard labour in the second division for window smashing. In April 1912 she joined the prisoners hunger strike, along with 19 of her fellow Suffragettes held in the prison's DX wing. The women, as indicated on the panel, also endured force-feeding by the authorities in their struggle to be classed as political, rather than criminal prisoners.
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Janie Terrero embroidered this panel while serving a 4 month sentence with hard labour in the second division for window smashing. In April 1912 she joined the prisoners hunger strike, along with 19 of her fellow Suffragettes held in the prison's DX wing. The women, as indicated on the panel, also endured force-feeding by the authorities in their struggle to be classed as political, rather than criminal prisoners.

This was Janie's first and only period of imprisonment for militancy.

Initially a member of the non-militant National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Janie shifted her allegiance to the militant Women's Social & Political Union in 1908.

In 1910 she established a WSPU branch in Pinner, where she lived, and became branch Honorary Secretary. Her husband Manuel Terrero was a member of the Men's Political Union For Women's Enfranchisement. The couple often hosted garden parties at their home 'Rockstone House' to raise funds for the campaign.

The panel appears to indicate Janie's commitment and loyalty to the Pankhursts. However, following her release, she disagreed with the Pankhursts' removal of Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence from the WSPU in October 1912, and appears to have taken little part in the suffragette campaign following this split in the leadership. < Hide

Measurements

L 520 mm; W 456 mm (overall)

Materials

silk; photograph

Last Updated

2024-03-14