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    hunger strikes. It became known as the Suffragette's Rest or Suffragette's Retreat. Emily Blathwayt was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and...
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  • Eagle House may refer to: in England Eagle House, London Eagle House School, near Sandhurst Eagle House (suffragette's rest) – house in Somerset which...
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    Emily Blathwayt (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    'Annie's Arbour'. Suffragettes recuperated in the purpose built summer-house Emily's husband, Linley, created at Eagle House (suffragette's rest). Emily would...
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    British feminist, suffragette and social reformer. She lived at Eagle House in Somerset. This house became known as the "Suffragette's Rest" and contained...
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    Maud Joachim (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    Suffrage Activism at the library (1 February-31 May 2024). Eagle House (suffragette's rest) Hunger Strike Medal Brown, Naomi (26 September 2023). "Help...
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    Blathwayt's home at Batheaston where the leading suffragettes met and recovered. It was known as the "Suffragette's Rest". Significant visitors were asked to plant...
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    visit the Eagle House aka "Suffragette's Rest" where a plaque commemorated her planting holly bush in the arboretum for leading suffragettes. Hewitt's early...
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    August 1909 Kitty was first invited to Eagle House, home of the Blathwayts and also known as the Suffragette's Rest, to join her two sisters. During the...
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    Theresa Garnett (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    November 1909 she was invited to Eagle House at Batheaston in Somerset. Eagle House was known as "Suffragette's Rest" because of its support for the movement...
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    Vera Wentworth (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    demonstrating outside H. H. Asquith's house. Vera was invited to Mary Blathwayt's home at Batheaston, where the leading suffragettes met. Significant visitors were...
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    Florence Haig (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    commemorative tree at the "Suffragette's Rest". The "Suffragette's Rest" was the nickname for Mary Blathwayt's home of Eagle House in Somerset. This was where...
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    Adela Pankhurst (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    action as violent and laboured". Eagle House near Bath in Somerset had become an important refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison...
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    Millicent Browne (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    sentence. On 4 July 1909 Browne planted not a tree but a holly bush at Eagle House where Linley Blathwayt took her picture and recorded the planting. Most...
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    Mary Jane Clarke (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    suffragette leader Annie Kenney planted a memorial tree for her in garden of the Blathwayts Eagle House in Somerset, known as the Suffragette's Rest;...
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    Aeta Lamb (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    a commemorative tree in their arboretum which they had named the 'Suffragette's Rest', before the Blathwayts withdrew their support due to the militancy...
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    Marie Brackenbury (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    at the "Suffragette's Rest" in Somerset on 22 July 1910. The "Suffragette's Rest" was the nickname for Mary Blathwayt's home at Eagle House where her...
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    Lillian Dove-Willcox (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    Dove-Wilcox was invited to Eagle House at Batheaston in Somerset in 1910. Eagle house was known as "Suffragette's Rest" because of its support for the...
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    Clara Mordan (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    Blathwayt's family entertained visitors at their "Suffragette's Rest". Many notable supporters were invited to the house. Emily Blathwayt planted trees and shrubs...
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    Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    1923), usually known as Constance Lytton, was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for...
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    Christabel Pankhurst (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    DBE (/ˈpæŋkhərst/; 22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political...
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    Jessie Kenney (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    sister Annie were invited to Mary Blathwayt's home, Eagle House at Batheaston where the leading suffragettes met. Any significant visitor to Batheaston was...
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  • Gertrude Stewart (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    stayed at Eagle House. Eagle House was part of an estate where Suffragettes came to rest and recover following time in prison. Often the suffragettes who stayed...
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    Elsie Howey (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    December 1884 – 13 March 1963), known as Elsie Howey, was an English suffragette. She was a militant activist with the Women's Social and Political Union...
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    June 1883 – 20 July 1958) was a Welsh peeress, businesswoman and active suffragette who was significant in the history of women's suffrage in the United...
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    Georgina Brackenbury (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    at the "Suffragette's Rest" in Somerset on 22 July 1910. The "Suffragette's Rest" was the nickname for Mary Blathwayt's home at Eagle House where her...
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    Clara Codd (category Eagle House suffragettes)
    was another suffragette. Her parents lived at Eagle House in Batheaston. Nearly all the prominent British suffragettes visited the house and Codd would...
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  • Pankhurst was born in 1927 in Woodford Green to left communist and former suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst and Italian anarchist Silvio Corio. His maternal grandparents...
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    Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 – 13 December 1960) was an English suffragette, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language. Beginning her career...
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  • was consumed by fire. The rest of the carriages were full of passengers, but they manage to escape. 18 April 1913: A suffragette plot to blow up the grandstand...
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  • Sexton Blake Library 161 The Black Opal Mine Plus: The Mystery of Matt's Rest Anon. (Andrew Murray) Anon. (Cecil Hayter) The Sexton Blake Library 162 Gipsy...
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