Miss Sarah Bennett

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
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Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Additional Information: Sarah joined the WSPU and was arrested in 1907 for taking part in a deputation to the House of Commons. In lieu of paying a fine, she was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. The same year, she also joined the newly formed Women's Freedom League (WFL). She became its treasurer between 1909 and 1910, when she resigned. She became a tax resistor and also joined the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS), but appears to have rediscovered the WSPU and her commitment to militancy again by the end of 1910. She was arrested multiple times, including in November that year on the infamous 'Black Friday' and again in 1911 for window smashing. In 1912, for window smashing again, she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, went on hunger strike and was released. After the goverment's proposed Franchise Bill was withdrawn in 1913, she was again arrested for smashing the windows of Selfridges department store in Oxford Street, London. She was sentenced to six months in prison this time, but may have been released quickly again due to hunger striking.

Other Suffrage Activities: Sarah had tried to reform the way that society worked early on in life. She had founded a co-operative society in the village she grew up in as a child (Hampshire). When she moved to Hanley (Staffordshire), she started another co-operative society and a general store, which she managed. She actively campaigned on behalf of Staffordshire pottery workers to improve their health and working conditions by banning the use of lead, which was dangerous, in pottery glaze.