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during her first activism in 1909, recommending she should breach the peace to get herself arrested and make speeches to attract attention. She was separated from Lytton in the crowd and the crush affected Lytton's weak heart. She was also one of the organisers with Gladys Keevil of noisy protests at
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Gye was one of a large number of women who hid in furniture vehicles and rushed on Parliament on 11–13 February 1908, and was arrested and sentenced to six weeks in prison. She had met Daisy Bullock in 1907 and was with
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to over 200 meetings, spoke at factories and at the large Gaiety Theatre in Dundee, gathering crowds to hear them criticising the Prime Minister's dealings with women over the question of suffrage.
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Budget meetings at Bingley Hall, Birmingham on 17 September 1909 when firemen were on standby, and other women used slates thrown from a nearby roof to drown out Asquith's speech.
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During Churchill's campaign for the by-election in 1908 in Dundee, after losing his seat in Peckham, Gye went with
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and involved in disruptive events in London and Scotland and was imprisoned for the cause of women's suffrage.
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wrote to Gye in 1928 to complain about the effect of force feeding on her daughter's voice.
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in London. At one time no photograph of her was known to exist. She died in 1943.
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had studied chemistry in Nottingham and then was a medical student at
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suffragette activism and creating the Suffragette Record Room, London
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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes
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She married the brother of fellow suffragette Daisy Bullock,
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The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1886-1928
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Index

Guildhall
suffragette

Charlotte Marsh
Dorothy Radcliffe
Christabel Pankhurst
Guildhall
Women's Social and Political Union
William Ewart Gye (né Bullock)
William Ewart Gye
Edinburgh
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Suffragette Record Room
Croydon High School
Gladice Keevil
Nellie Martel
Emmeline Pankhurst
Aeta Lamb
H. Asquith
Nottingham
Minnie Baldock
Women's Social and Political Union
William Ewart Gye
Edinburgh
Rachel Barrett
Helen Fraser
Constance Lytton
Elsie Howey
Representation of the People Act 1918
World War I

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