Miss Violet Helen Friedlander
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1878
Died: 1950
Occupation: Writer
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Society Role: Honorary secretary
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 2
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: Violet's family were supportive of women's suffrage and the WSPU. Her brother helped make a banner for the WSPU West Ham, London, branch.
Additional Information: Violet joined the WSPU in 1908. She wrote a poem, 'The Women's Army', which was put to music and sung by WSPU members. She and her mother organised a WSPU campiagn in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and by 1910, Violet had become honorary secretary of the London Forest Gate WSPU branch. In 1912 she took part in a WSPU window-smashing campaign and was imprisoned for four months at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham.