Annie Williams (suffragette)

Annie Williams (c. 1860–1943) [1] was a British suffragette, organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), imprisoned twice and awarded a Hunger Strike Medal.

[citation needed] She was involved in a same-sex partnership[2] with fellow activist Lettice Floyd,[3] but not allowed to write to her in prison.

[3] At the start of the 1908 school term, Williams returned to teaching in Cornwall, but attended a WSPU "At Home" gathering in Plymouth in November.

[8] In March 1912, with Lettice Floyd, Williams was one of the 200 or more WSPU members organised to be smashing windows, as Parliament was considering (and rejected) the Conciliation Bill (to give some women the vote), and was sentenced to one month in Holloway prison.

[3] Williams and Lettice Floyd were among the 100 suffragettes who were honoured, awarded the WSPU Hunger Strike Medal, "for Valour" Up to November 1912, Emily Davison had been helping Lettice Floyd and Williams at their open air meetings before travelling by train to Aberdeen to accost the Prime Minister Lloyd-George.

[4] At the start of World War One, when the suffragettes called off their activism campaign, Williams and Lettice Floyd moved from Cardiff to Berkswell, near Coventry, and their relationship continued.