Pleasance Pendred
Pleasance Pendred (15 July 1864 – 29 September 1948) was a British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette[2] who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed.
She was born on 15 July 1864 as Kate Pleasance Jackson in
She resigned her teaching post just before she began her militant action for the WSPU on 28 January 1913 when she and three other women smashed the windows of various shops including an antiquities shop at 167 Victoria Street[12] and of government offices in Westminster. During her trial in February 1913 she gave the name Pleasance Pendred and under that name she was sentenced to four months hard labour in Holloway Prison. As she was sentenced Pendred used the dock to complain publicly concerning the treatment received by herself and the other suffragettes arrested with her at Rochester Row Police Station. She stated that the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna had lied when he said that the four arrested women slept on camp beds in their cells and that they were supervised by women warders. She claimed that in fact her cell had a plank bed, the sanitary arrangements were disgusting and that five times during the night a male warder had come into her cell. The jury requested that the Chairman of the Sessions investigate these claims.[13][14]
In Holloway Pendred went on
She died in Lewes in Sussex in 1948 having never married.[16] Her Holloway brooch and Hunger Strike Medal issued by the WSPU and named to her as Pleasance Pendred was auctioned in 2001, selling for £3,600.[13]
References
- ^ Pankhurst, Emmeline (1911). The Suffragette. New York: Sturgis & Walton Company. p. 433.
- ^ Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 - compiled by the Suffragette Fellowship, c. 1950 - The National Archives
- ^ Kate Pleasance Jackson in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ 1871 England Census for Kate Pleasance Jackson - London, St George Hanover Square, Belgrave - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ Warwickshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910 for Thomas Jackson and Elizabeth Pendred: Rugby 1850 - 1874 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ a b 1901 London Census Record for Kate Pleasance Jackson: Middlesex, Hornsey, District 40 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ Kate Pleasance Jackson in the 1881 England Census - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ 1891 England Census for Kate P Jackson: Middlesex, Hornsey, District 9 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Kate Pleasance-J Jackson - Haringey, Hornsey, 1927 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ a b Pleasance Pendred, 'Why Women Teachers Break Windows' (c1913) - Pamphlet in the Collection of the National Library of Scotland
- ^ a b Jeanette Lang, 'Suffragette Talk: Who was Pleasance Pendred?' - Glasgow Women's Library 26 September 2018
- ^ 1910-1919: A period when legislative change finally began to establish gender equality - First 100 Years Project, 8 July 2016
- ^ Dix Noonan Webb21 September 2001
- ^ Kerry Segrave, Policewomen: A History, 2d ed, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (2014) - Google Books pg. 118
- ^ Lucy Delap, Maria Di Cenzo, Leila Ryan (editors), 'Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918, Volume , Routledge (2006) - Google Books
- ^ Kate Pleasance Jackson in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)