Mrs Henrietta Lowy
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Born: 1866
Died: 1953
Place of birth: Bermondsey, Surrey, England
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Other Societies: JLWS; ELFS
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: Mother to Ethel and Gertrude Lowy.
Additional Information: Henrietta's daughters Ethel and Gertrude Lowy joined the WSPU, and she and her husband became supporters. She opened up her home to the cause and hosted two suffrage plays there. Afterwards, in 1909, she helped her daughters to run a tea stall at the WSPU's Prince's Skating Rink Exhibition. Incensed by the violent treatment meted out to women demonstrators by police in November 1910 ? a day that became known as 'Black Friday' ? she took part in stone-throwing in retaliation and was sentenced to one month in prison. She broke windows again in 1912, at Liberal Cabinet minister Lewis Harcourt's house, and was convicted. Henrietta also refused to pay tax because she didn't have a vote, and in 1912, when it was founded, joined the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage (JLWS). In 1918, she was continuing to support Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), which was a working-class-based organisation. Henrietta and her husband were generous financially to the suffrage societies they supported, including the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement (MPU), the male 'wing' of the WSPU.