Miss Amy Maud Hicks

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/neither-freaks-nor-frumps-two-essex-suffragettes-lilian-and-amy-hicks/
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Family information: Daughter to Lilian Martha Hicks.

Additional Information: Amy joined the WSPU around 1906?7 but swiftly left to join the breakaway group the Women's Freedom League (WFL) when it formed in 1907. She became the WFL's literary secretary in 1909, and was imprisoned that year on a charge of obstruction for three weeks. In 1910, she gave her support to the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS) and rejoined the WSPU. She was arrested with her mother, Lilian Hicks, in November 1910 at the 'Black Friday' demonstration. Also that year, she joined the committee of the Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL). In 1912, she was arrested and imprisoned again for four months for window smashing as part of a WSPU window-smashing campaign. She served her sentence in Holloway and in Aylesbury Prison (in solitary confinement), where the authorities believe she orchestrated a co-ordinated hunger strike among fellow suffragette prisoners. In 1914, she became a member of the United Suffragists (US), which broke away from the WSPU.

Other Suffrage Activities: Amy remained politically engaged after the suffrage campaign and was a rural district councillor in Chelmsford, Essex from 1927?1930. She was also a lecturer at the Women's Institute.