Votes for Women, Prisoners of War

Front cover of the WSPU weekly newspaper, Votes for Women, with an illustration by Poyntz Wright, showing a Joan of Arc figure in armour on a horse, with a WSPU shield and a flag labelled Prisoners of War. It is a comment on the conspiracy trial of Mrs Pankhurst and other suffragettes at the Old Bailey, 15-22 May 1912, in which the jury asked the judge for leniency, and the judge sentenced the women to nine months imprisonment, with the added burden of paying the prosecution costs

Comment Conspiracy Costs Imprisonment Injustice Leniency Pankhurst Poyntz Prosecution Sentence Symbolism Unfair Weekly Wspu

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