They had both been with Muriel Matters when she chained herself to the grills that divided the public viewing section of the House of Commons.

Emily paid her fine and 17 year old Barbara was released after she said that she would not get involved in any further protests until she was 21 (i.e. an adult).

In 1910 her son Victor Duval founded the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement (MPU).

In 1912 she was four months into a six-month sentence in Birmingham's Winson Green prison when she decided to hunger-strike.

[2] In 1913 her daughter Elsie Duval became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'.