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Dora Thewlis

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Thewlis emigrated to Australia before the start of the First World War, therefore never seeing the passage of women's suffrage in England, and in 1918 she married Jack Dow, who predeceased her in 1956. They had two children, she died in 1976 in
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At the time of her birth, Shady Row was within the boundary of the Township of Honley. Following a ruling in 1896 by the Boundary Commission, the Township of Meltham boundary was redrawn to include the whole of Meltham
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The judge suggested her parents might take her in hand and sort her out. Their reply was she was her own person and they fully supported her. The family were socialists and her mother Eliza was quoted in the
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at the local by-election. Dora's sentence was two weeks in prison, but she served one. On her departure escorted by a wardress, she met with
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as saying that she had brought Dora up to read newspapers since the age of 7 and to debate politics. The family had also supported
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in 1907. She was arrested the same year, having been part of a planned break in into the
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Thewlis was arrested on 20 March 1907. This photograph appeared in the
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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes
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Meltham Mills
West Riding of Yorkshire
England
Ascot Vale, Victoria
Women's Social and Political Union
Houses of Parliament
suffragette
Daily Mirror
Meltham Mills
Huddersfield
West Riding of Yorkshire
Woodbridge
Women's Social and Political Union
Houses of Parliament
The Daily Chronicle
The Times
Mrs Pankhurst
Edith How-Martyn
Ascot Vale, Victoria
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's Social and Political Union
List of suffragists and suffragettes


"The Baby Suffragette"



"Dora Thewlis: The Lost Suffragette"

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