Lady Constance Lytton released

Lady Constance Lytton released

Women's Rights

This is a photograph of Lady Constance Lytton being released from jail and marching out from the prison, immediately promoting women's rights the same day of her release. Lady Constance Lytton was one of the most influential leaders of the Suffragettes, during the Women's Movement. Well educated and living comfortably, Lytton threw away her familial expectations away for the rights of women. Lytton was so deeply invested in the Suffragettes that she decided to go to prison in disguise to document the culture that happens in prison. She took the name Jane Warton, cutting her hair, wearing clothes opposite of her usual affluent attire, and glasses then getting arrested in Liverpool. While she was in prison she read works like "Dreams" by Olive Schreiner, promoting women's rights in the prison and using "Dreams" to promote her platform of women's rights. She was force-fed eight times before her identity was revealed and she was released.

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"Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr"

1909

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