Miss Evaline Hilda Burkitt

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/03/22/suffrage-stories-from-frederick-street-to-winson-green-the-birmingham-womens-suffrage-campaign/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-42949175/hilda-burkitt-suffragette-who-spoke-out-against-force-feeding
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Additional Information: Hilda worked as a secretary in Birmingham and joined the WSPU in 1907. A regional office was opened in 1908 and Hilda became publicity co-ordinator for the Midlands campaign. She was arrested numerous times in 1909 and was finally imprisoned, along with several other suffragettes, for one month in Winson Green, Birmingham, for causing disruption during the Prime Minister's visit to the city. On arriving at the prison, the women sang defiant songs and messages and went on hunger strike, as they were not given first class (political) prisoner status. They were forcibly fed and Hilda was the first suffragette to endure this treatment. She was tube-fed and it was so painful that afterwards she agreed to eat. In 1912, Hilda was arrested for taking part in the WSPU window-smashing campaign but was released on medical grounds after hunger striking. In 1913, she was arrested in Leeds for attempting to set fire to Leeds Football Ground grandstand. She took to hunger striking again and was released temporarily under the 'Cat and Mouse Act'. She evaded rearrest under the Act until 1914, when she was found to be responsible for several acts of arson in the south, including burning two wheat stacks at Felixstowe, the pier at Great Yarmouth and the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe. Hilda was held on remand, awaiting trial in Ipswich Prison, where she went on hunger and thirst strike and was forcibly fed. She was released from prison in September 1914, having agreed to take no further part in militant activities. This was later than other suffragette prisoners, released under the Home Office amnesty on 10 August 1914. Hilda was force-fed a staggering 292 times.