Mrs Charlotte Emily Caprina Fahey
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Born: 1883
Place of birth: Capri, Italy
Occupation: Masseuse
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 6
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Family information: Father was famous sculptor Alfred Gilbert. In 1901 she married a painter, Edward Fahey. They had a son. Her husband died in 1907. Perhaps disapproving of her militant activity, she was not mentioned, and nor was her son, in her father's will upon death.
Additional Information: Caprina joined the WSPU after attending its Hyde Park demonstration in 1908. She took part in the deputation to the Houses of Parliament in February 1909, where she was arrested and sentenced to one month in prison. She was organiser for the Middlesex (Harrow) Parliamentary Division during the elections of 1910 and, that year, was arrested for a throwing a stone in the 'Black Friday' demonstration and was sentenced to two weeks. In June 1913, she was one of the group captains leading the funeral procession of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Caprina seems to have been arrested again in 1914, but it is not clear what for.