Miss Marion Wallace Dunlop

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Database linked sources: https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/activity/3203/what-were-the-suffrage-campaigners-fighting-for
https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/activity/3211/why-do-historians-have-different-views-of-the-suffrage-movement
https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/resource/3206/parliament-and-the-suffrage-campaign

Additional Information: In 1900 and 1905, Marion subscibed to the Central Society for Women's Suffrage (CSWS) and, with her mother, to its successor, the London Society for Women's Suffrage (LSWS). By the summer of 1908, she was an active member of the WSPU and was first arrested and imprisoned for 'obstruction'. Later that year she was arrested for leading a deputation to the House of Commons, receiving one month in prison. She was arrested and imprisoned again in 1909 for stencilling a notice advertising a forthcoming deputation on the walls of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons, and reacted by going on hunger strike. Marion was the first suffragette to go on hunger strike and it was an individual and spontaneus decision by her. She was released after 91 hours. The WSPU and other suffragettes afterwards adopted her example of hunger striking as a weapon in their war against the government. In 1910, she became honorary secretary of the Weybridge WSPU branch. In 1911, she developed a stencilling device so that she could illegally stencil on pavements and buildings more quickly, and she took part in perpetrating and organising window smashing. She was arrested for breaking windows at the Home Office and was given a three-week prison sentence. She was a pallbearer at WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst's funeral.