Doreen Allen

In 1905 she married Melville Hodsoll Allen (1879–1932) who worked at the Stock Exchange in London[3] and who served in World War I as a captain in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

A fellow-prisoner in Holloway was Mary Ann Aldham and the signatures of the two appear on The Suffragette Handkerchief embroidered by Janie Terrero.

On 10 June 1912 the three imprisoned grandmothers - Gertrude Wilkinson (aka Jessie Howard), Janet Boyd and Mary Ann Aldham sang together.

[6] On another occasion some of the women performed a scene from The Merchant of Venice with Evaline Hilda Burkitt as Shylock and the role of Narissa played by Allen.

[1][5] When WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst returned to Great Britain from America in late 1913, she was met at Plymouth by a group suffragettes which included Doreen Allen.