https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/301e3baba5241dd0f8a0c613fcd094c0.jpg fa5cbef69b8562c6121d398147159c9f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Lady Constance Lytton circa 1911. Courtesy The National Portrait Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b815aa266a378bff92ea30a2c9f4e244.jpg 9cccddab798fc9b8bcbc2841a618e469 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emmeline Pankhurst and Constance Lytton at Waterloo Station, c.1910. Courtesy of The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bcecd23d9467700665a23ecc3080ce2c.jpg 4c455343b3e68792e1b54d507651e253 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Letter from Constance Lytton to Miss Browne on her arrest following a deputation in 1909 (p.1). Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fb531e9cf8dddc38048305652abf5c1a.jpg 278b5c1cff64a52fd188f75bbdeb3268 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Letter from Constance Lytton to Miss Browne on her arrest following a deputation in 1909 (p.2). Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d5240857fe6f31855f4eedfa491b77d3.jpg 532f60f504720b1c83eeb24ed2b3ead0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Lady Constance Lytton dressed as seamstress 'Jane Warton'. Image courtesy of The Museum of London. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ff799cdafb3a6cc90ca59a1a4f736338.jpg 9ad9c44cca59d44a87ac4f1d730ed88b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The 1911 census form for Constance Lytton's London flat at 15 Somerset Terrace where she resisted. Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7339e9ba7b23f93d5657f5db2878b9fe.jpg 56073ecb112edc0f77a2a795a2f08c07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Suffragettes Constance Lytton and Lesley Lawless with other women outside Bow Street Magistrates' Court, carrying suitcases, parcels, rugs, c. 1912. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/27841df39c7960190a3161ed7b861be8.jpg 5c6b4aeeb7aaff3cb89cd831e9eafbc0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Constance Lytton parading in the WSPU's From Prison to Citizenship Pageant, 1911. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/652d3dac9772dfe54b84f02b3ce1925f.jpg ca1fd28c7fb9f0843347c6c26a6407ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Letter from Constance Lytton to Mrs Pankhurst asking that Miss Avery, a teacher at Knebworth school, be excused from joining the March 1912 window smashing campaign. Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bdd2f8f07e871cfaa0bfc6e7996837f6.jpg aa7ac00e7ec8b672722b85386042d380 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Constance Lytton 1910. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 42 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 15 Somerset Terrace, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) joined the WSPU in January 1909 and was a committed suffragette. She was imprisoned in Holloway prison for one month in February 1909 but was found to have a weak heart so began her sentence in the hospital wing, rather than the cells. During her sentence she carved the letter ‘V’ on her chest with a hairpin (with the intention of writing ‘Votes for Women’). She was arrested in October 1909 after throwing a stone at a car in Newcastle. Constance was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and began a hunger strike. On her third day without eating, following a medical examination, her sentence was terminated, and she was released. Constance did not want the special privileges that she felt she had been given because of her family (her father had been Viceroy of India), so in January 1910 she travelled to a protest in Liverpool disguised as a seamstress named Jane Warton. She was arrested and sentenced by contrast to two weeks in the Third Division criminal class of prison. ‘Jane’ did not reveal her medical condition and went on hunger strike. She was force-fed eight times before her real identity was established and she was released. Following her release, she wrote a graphic account of her experiences for The Times and provided a report to the Home Office. The furore surrounding Constance's preferential treatment compared to lower class 'Jane' was embarrassing for the government and a publicity coup for the WSPU: though her treatment as 'Jane' took a serious toll on Constance's health. From June 1910 she was a paid organiser for the WSPU, earning £2 per week. She rented a flat near the Euston Road, where she lived at the time of the 1911 census and gave speeches around the country. She refused to give her details for the census, and they were completed by the registrar with an estimated age. After a stroke in the autumn of 1910, she became paralysed down one side, but subsequently recovered and carried on with speaking engagements. Constance’s last imprisonment was in November 1911 after she threw stones, breaking glass at a Post Office. She was sentenced to fourteen days in the First Division, but her fine was paid anonymously, and she was released, even though this was against normal suffragette policy. Another stroke in May 1912 meant that Constance moved back to Knebworth to live with her mother. She taught herself to write left-handed and wrote a book about her experiences called Prisons and Prisoners, which was published in March 1914. Constance did not take part in any more direct suffragette action but continued to hold the cause dear and was visited by many of her WSPU friends. During the First World War she worked on behalf of a range of different causes and sold many of her possessions so that she could give more money. Constance was delighted when some women were given the vote in 1918. She died in 1923, and a palm leaf in Suffragette colours was placed upon her casket by Emmeline Pethick Lawrence. For more about Constance’s life at Knebworth read my blog for Mapping Women’s Suffrage. Sources: B. Barnett-Sanders and E. Lenton (ed.) Suffrage Stories: Tales from Knebworth, Stevenage, Hitchin, and Letchworth (Stevenage: Stevenage Museum, 2019) P. Miles and J. Williams, An Uncommon Criminal (Knebworth: KHEPT, 1999) L. Jenkins, Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr (London: Biteback, 2015). Contributed by Katherine Dunstan, Education Officer, Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust www.knebworthhouse.com Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Constance Lytton (Lady) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-14406.189260024557 6715117.602641573) WSPU