Edith Bone (28 January 1889 – 14 February 1975), originally Edit Olga Hajós,[citation needed] was a medical professional, journalist and translator who later became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
[3] In July 1936, she and her friend and fellow communist, artist Felicia Browne, travelled to Spain to attend the international People's Olympiad, a protest event against the 1936 Olympics.
[5] Bone remained in Spain, working as a doctor[2] and as a journalist with Claud Cockburn, a correspondent for the Daily Worker.
[1] When arriving in Hungary, she was accused of spying for the British government, arrested by the State Protection Authority (AVH) and detained in solitary confinement without a fair trial or a prisoner identification number for seven years.
[1][3] She launched what she called a series of "little wars" against her captors after realising they weren't going to use physical force on her and that she had no family to threaten.
To accomplish this, she slowly removed single threads from towels and wove them into a solid rope with which to work the nail.
[citation needed] She used these projects to keep her mind stimulated, to fill her time with goal-oriented actions, and to keep her sanity during her long period of extreme isolation.