Ada Wright

[1] On 18 November 1910, the "Black Friday", at the age of fifty, Wright took part at the Women's Suffrage demonstration in Parliament Square, and as she ran towards the Strangers' Entrance of the House of Commons, was struck by a policeman and fell to the ground.

Wright is said to be the woman in the famous picture which was on the front page of the Daily Mirror on 19 November and became an iconic image of the suffrage movement,[1] the reporter said she had been at seven demonstrations and "never known the police so violent" and had "pushed [her] as roughly as he would have done any man" but saying he wouldn't "give [her] the satisfaction of arresting [her]".

[3] In November 1911 she was arrested for breaking Cabinet Minister 'Loulou" Harcourt's window during the protest against the Conciliation Bill and imprisoned for 14 days, she remarked that the night before such activism "the suspense always tries me terribly".

[3] In March 1912, together with Charlotte Marsh, she took part at the window-smashing campaign in the Strand and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Aylesbury Prison, because of previous convictions.

[3] In prison she went on hunger strike and described "trembling from head to foot and weak and dizzy", being forcibly fed with a feeding tube "rammed down her throat by clumsy and unskilled fingers", thinking she would suffocate, and being left partly conscious on the floor the first time, a torture that was repeated twice daily for 10 days.

She died in Finchley in 1939, and was described as "one of those quiet women whose gently and calm manner hides a courageous and indomitable nature of unexpected depths".

[3] In her will Wright left a picture to her friend, the actress Adeline Bourne (1873–1965), £100 (equivalent to £7,831 in 2023) to Evie Hamill (sister of Cicely Hamilton), £150 (£11,747 in 2023) to Nina Boyle, £200 (£15,662 in 2023) to Flora Drummond to carry on with the welfare of animals campaign, £500 (£39,156 in 2023) to Rosamund Massy, £1,600 to Christabel Pankhurst (£125,300 in 2023).