File containing the following:
1) Incidents in the Women's Suffrage Campaign: 5 page typescript account written by Nellie Crocker [circa 1940], detailing Women's Social and Political Union [WSPU] activities during various election campaigns, including a bye-election in Retford, Nottinghamshire; also describes deputations to the House of Commons and mentions sympathetic response from some men, including the Westminster police [an electronic transcription is available - see the details page];
2) Incidents in the Women's Suffrage Campaign: 7page typescript account written by Nellie Crocker [circa 1940], detailing the experiences of suffragette prisoners in Holloway Prison - describes prison regulations and the flouting thereof, minor acts of rebellion, hunger strikes, forcible feeding and the operation of the 'Cat & Mouse Act'. The document includes several references to the campaigning activities of Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence [an electronic transcription is available - see the details page];
3) Letter from Nellie Crocker to the Mistress of Girton, 15 January 1949, enclosing the above accounts 'in the hope that you will find them useful for your students - - modern young women seem unaware of the price paid for their political & social emancipation - - ';
4) Letter from K T Butler to Helen [McMorran, Librarian], 19 January 1949, concerning the donation to Girton College of the above accounts.