Miss Maud Amalia Fanny Joachim

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 a wool merchant. Uncle a famous violinist, Joseph Joachim.

Additional Information: Maud joined the WSPU in 1907 and was arrested in 1908 after taking part in a 'raid' on the House of Commons. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison. She was arrested again in June, during a deputation to the House of Commons, and was sentenced to three months in prison. In early 1909, Maud was working in Aberdeen with Ada Flatman and Sylvia Pankhurst when she was arrested with others in Dundee after interrupting a meeting being held by local MP Winston Churchill. She refused to pay a fine and so was sentenced to ten days in prison. Hunger striking had, by then, been adopted in England and so Maud and the other Scottish prisoners followed suit. They were released. Maud was present during the 'Black Friday' demonstration in November 1910 and, like many other women, she was arrested but not charged. In 1911, she was involved in 'disturbances' following the government's 'torpedoing' of the much-hoped-for Conciliation Bill; she was arrested and sentenced to three weeks in prison. She smashed windows in 1912 as a part of an organised window-smashing campaign by the WSPU and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Considered a 'bad influence' on others, she was transferred from Holloway to Maidstone Prison but was likely behind a hunger strike that subsequently took place there. She was released after two days of being forcibly fed. A good horsewoman, she did much advertising and propaganda work for the WSPU on horseback ? certainly eye-catching. In 1910, she subscribed to the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS) and in 1914 joined Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), which focused on working class women. During the war, she continued to work as secretary for the ELFS in its unemployment bureau, which appealed for help for the local unemployed.