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138:'s speeches while working in its information department, even being said to be the 'real brains' behind some of her best known rhetoric. In October 1906 she took part in a deputation to the House of Commons and was arrested, but ultimately released after her mother paid her fine. Despite this, she took part in another deputation in February/March 1907, and another in October 1908, resulting in prison terms of a week, then a month, served in 169: 749: 188:, which they operated as a home of refuge for suffragettes between 1908 and 1912. In 1911, Lamb was one of the last WSPU members to go there, planting a commemorative tree in their arboretum which they had named the 'Suffragette's Rest', before the Blathwayts withdrew their support due to the militancy of the organization. In April 1908 she helped 123: 192:
in the Kincardineshire by-election campaign, after which she went on to help in the Montrose Burghs, Dundee and Stirling Burghs by election campaigns in May, and then another in Pudsey in June 1908. After these campaigns, her health and stamina began to fail, so she returned to London to work at
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until the outbreak of the Great War, becoming one of its longest serving organizers. One of her last duties was to draw up a list of suffragette prisoners for use in the campaign - by the time of its completion it contained over 1,200 documents relevant to the arrest of over 450 suffragettes.
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in British Guiana, and named after a palm that her father, the botanist William Davis Lamb, had discovered there. Her father died when she was a child, and Aeta, her two siblings and her mother Adelaide, daughter of General Henry Nicoll,
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During the War she worked in War Depots, and afterwards was largely unsuccessful in finding gainful employment, despite learning shorthand, typing, and even cookery. She died of cancer at the
180:(Ross) by election. From there she was one of the main organizers the first meeting of the Bath branch of the WSPU in April 1908. It was here also that she got to know the Blathwayt family of 201:
She remained loyal to the WSPU throughout its campaign, despite developing increasing misgivings of its policies of violent protest over the course of her time with them.
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Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 in The Papers of Annie Lacon, London Metropolitan University, The Women's Library 7LAC/2 c. 1960
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Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965: Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape
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England & Wales, Death Index: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England
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The National Archives, UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Suffragettes: Amnesty of August 1914: index of women arrested 1906-1914
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In January 1908, she was again assisting Emmeline Pankhurst, this time at the Mid-Devon by-election, and then at the
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Aeta Lamb planted a tree to celebrate her imprisonment. The picture was taken by Colonel Linley Blathwayt
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Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904-18
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In July 1907 she assisted with by-election campaign in North West Staffordshire alongside
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in Records of The Blathwayte Family of Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire Archives D2659/19-29
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She joined the WSPU in 1906 – she was noted to be very eloquent and she wrote some of
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Glass plate negatives collection of Col Linley Blathwayt, Bath Central Library
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Records of the Blathwayt family of Eagle House, Batheaston, near Bath
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The Suffragette Movement - An Intimate Account Of Persons And Ideals
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Aeta Lamb's 1911 Eagle House tree - Taxus Baccata Fastigiata
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The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928
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Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset: Eagle House, Batheaston
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People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School
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SilverWood Books Ltd. 316:The Bristol Suffragettes 314:Boyce, Lucienne (2013). 213:at the age of 41 years. 112:Notting Hill High School 97:Early life and education 1038:Helen Kirkpatrick Watts 893:Katherine Douglas Smith 825:Lilias Ashworth Hallett 239:Cowman, Krista (2000). 114:between 1898 and 1899. 205:Later career and death 173: 131: 756:at Wikimedia Commons 433:"Programme of Events" 171: 125: 1073:Rose Lamartine Yates 1053:Lillian Dove Willcox 1003:Christabel Pankhurst 850:Georgina Brackenbury 136:Christabel Pankhurst 958:Jenny (Jane) Kenney 149:and August 1907 in 1063:Lillian Williamson 1008:Emmeline Pankhurst 552:2016-03-03 at the 539:2016-03-04 at the 526:2016-03-04 at the 513:2017-11-07 at the 500:2016-03-04 at the 439:. 23 January 1908. 174: 155:Emmeline Pankhurst 132: 83:Aeta Adelaide Lamb 44:Aeta Adelaide Lamb 22:Aeta Adelaide Lamb 1081: 1080: 1048:Edith Wheelwright 903:Millicent Fawcett 888:Charlotte Despard 855:Marie Brackenbury 752:Media related to 344:London Daily Mail 101:Lamb was born in 80: 79: 67:, London, England 1116: 1033:Gertrude Stewart 870:Mary Jane Clarke 865:Florence Canning 860:Millicent Browne 783: 776: 769: 760: 751: 731: 703: 700: 694: 693: 675: 669: 668: 657: 651: 650: 639: 633: 632: 620: 614: 613: 601: 595: 594: 582: 576: 575: 563: 557: 489: 483: 482: 464: 458: 450: 441: 440: 429: 423: 422: 411: 405: 404: 402: 400: 386: 380: 379: 367: 361: 354: 348: 347: 346:. 22 April 1907. 336: 330: 329: 311: 298: 295: 289: 288: 268: 255: 254: 236: 32: 18: 1124: 1123: 1119: 1118: 1117: 1115: 1114: 1113: 1084: 1083: 1082: 1077: 998:Adela Pankhurst 988:Dr. Mary Morris 978:Charlotte Marsh 923:Margaret Hewitt 908:Theresa Garnett 845:Emily Blathwayt 820:Laura Ainsworth 808: 792: 787: 745: 728: 715: 712: 707: 706: 701: 697: 690: 677: 676: 672: 665:Votes for Women 659: 658: 654: 647:Votes for Women 641: 640: 636: 629:Votes for Women 622: 621: 617: 610:Votes for Women 603: 602: 598: 591:Votes for Women 584: 583: 579: 565: 564: 560: 554:Wayback Machine 541:Wayback Machine 528:Wayback Machine 515:Wayback Machine 502:Wayback Machine 490: 486: 479: 466: 465: 461: 451: 444: 437:Votes for Women 431: 430: 426: 421:. 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Index


Demerara
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital
Women's Social and Political Union
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Demerara
CB
Notting Hill High School

Eagle House
Christabel Pankhurst
Holloway Prison
Annie Kenney
Bury St Edmunds
Emmeline Pankhurst
Bristol

Herefordshire
Eagle House
Batheaston
Mary Gawthorpe
Clement's Inn
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital





ISBN
978-0719070037

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