Miss Dorothy Pethick

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/3214/how-effective-was-the-votes-for-women-campaign-in-bristol

Family information: Sister of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.

Additional Information: Dorothy was arrested in 1909 for taking part in a deputation to the House of Commons, and later with Kitty Marion for throwing a stone at the General Post Office in Newcastle. The window was not broken but she was nevertheless sentenced to two weeks' hard labour. She went on hunger strike. Following her release, Dorothy travelled to Bristol and Leicester to demonstrate and organise WSPU campaigns. In 1910, she was sentenced to two weeks in prison for taking part in protest demonstrations over the violence meted out to women by police at the 'Black Friday' demonstration. She was released when her fine was paid, though she had not wished it. This happened again after an arrest in 1911. In April that year, she organised a census night protest in Leicester as part of the wider suffrage boycott of the goverment's 1911 census survey of the population. She likely left the WSPU when her sister Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was ousted from the society by the Pankhursts in 1912. In 1916, she was a member of the United Suffragists (US), and the British Dominions Woman Suffrage Union in 1918.