Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.
by Lytton, Constance
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1914. First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress "Jane Warton." Octavo, original publisher's purple cloth with WSPU motif by Sylvia Pankhurst to the front panel, illustrated with two portraits including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Lytton. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare. Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, to give her her full name, was the grand-daughter of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and although her family was very influential, she rejected completely her background and joined the WSPU. She was arrested four times, and under the name of Constance Lytton she was given preferential treatment and privileges; she was not forcilbly fed when she went on hunger strike, and was soon released. However, when she went to Liverpool under the name of "Jane Warton", she was arrested, forcibly fed, and her health was permanently damaged.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references: p. 361-365.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 135207
- Title
- Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.
- Author
- Lytton, Constance
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Constance Lytton First Edition, Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography;
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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