Miss Sarah Jane Carwin

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/451273.html
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Family information: Father owned a business in Russia.

Additional Information: Sarah saw the votes for women campaign as a 'crusade against injustice'. After joining the WSPU, she was arrested and imprisoned twice in 1909 ? the second time for smashing windows on a government building when taking part in a deputation to the House of Commons. She was taken to Holloway Prison in London, where she also broke every pane of glass in her prison cell and so was housed in a basement cell as punishment. She went on hunger strike and was released. She was arrested numerous times and was generally released after hunger striking. However, when, in 1912, she broke 12 windows on London's Regent Street as part of the WSPU's window-smashing campaign, she was sentenced to six months in Birmingham's Winson Green prison, and when she went on hunger strike, she was forcibly fed. After four months of enduring this practice, she had to be released due to the decline in her physical condition. Perhaps as a consequence of this experience, Sarah took no further part in the WSPU's militant campaign.