Eagle House (suffragette's rest)

[7] Emily Blathwayt's interest was in the garden and they had an extensive library of books, including hundreds on botany and nature.

[6] Emily and Mary Blathwayt began attending meetings of the Bath Women's Suffrage Society.

[8] Mary met Annie Kenney at a Women's Social and Political Union meeting in Bath, and she agreed to help Kenney, Elsie Howey, Clara Codd and Mary Phillips organise a local women's suffrage campaign.

[6] Blathwayt's diary also includes details of the sexual relationships between some participants of the movement which took place at Eagle House.

[2] Key activists from the suffragette movement were invited to stay at her house and to plant a tree to celebrate a prison sentence, or to mark having been on hunger strike.

[12] When Vera Wentworth and Elsie Howey assaulted H. H. Asquith (the Prime Minister), it proved too much for the Blathwayt family.

Wentworth sent them a long reply expressing regret at their reaction but noting that "if Mr. Asquith will not receive deputation they will pummel him again".

[13] This list was translated from the German Wikipedia which refers to the online archive of Bath in Time[16] which shows the layout, images of individual women and their trees.

In fact, the Somerset Archaeological Society was consulted over a planning application and noted that the grounds were "not very attractive".

[18] In 2018, herbaria leaves, at least 100 years old, from pressed branches of five trees from Annie's Arboretum were identified in the archives of the University of East Anglia.

They include samples from the trees planted by Annie Kenney, Lady Constance Lytton and Christabel Pankhurst.

[20] The University of East Anglia intended to produce an online anthology with writers, schoolchildren and students from Norfolk, on the life stories of the women whose memorial trees in Annie's Arboretum had been their lost.

Eagle House c. 1890
Annie Kenney to the left, Mary Blathwayt at centre and Emmeline Pankhurst , with the spade, at Eagle House in 1910
Annie's Arboretum at Eagle House c.1910