Miss Alice Paul

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
http://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/alice-paul/JgGmh6SMucN0jA
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999); A R Fry, Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment (1976)

Additional Information: Alice joined the WSPU in 1908 after hearing Christabel Pankhurst speak at Birmingham University, becoming a 'heart and soul convert'. She moved to London and was introduced to WSPU work, such as selling its Votes for Women newspapers and speaking at meetings. In 1909, she was arrested for taking part in a WSPU deputation to the House of Commons, but the case was dropped. She was also arrested for holding a suffrage meeting but was released, and was arrested again for interrupting a meeting being held by Liberal politician Lloyd George. She was sentenced to two weeks in Holloway Prison but went on hunger strike and was released a few days later. Alice spent some time in Scotland working as an organiser. She was arrested in Dundee trying to force her way into a Cabinet meeting, and was sentenced to ten days in prison, but was released again after hunger striking. She travelled back to London, where she was arrested again after disrupting the Lord Mayor's Banquet. She was sentenced to 30 days in Holloway Prison and again went on hunger strike. This time, and now in England, she was forcibly fed, something that was not being carried out in Scottish prisons when she had been arrested before. Once she had recovered from the ordeal, Alice left England and returned to America. Once there, she used similar tactics to the WSPU in her campaign with the newly formed Women's Party, and was arrested three times for picketing the Whitehouse.