Genie Sheppard

Genie Sheppard (7 October 1863 – 10 April 1953) was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and militant suffragette[1] who in prison went on hunger strike where she was force-fed for which action she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.

[5] The 1901 Census lists her and her older sister Amy Sheppard as Medical Practitioners lodging at 13 Upper Berkeley Street in Marylebone in London.

[3] She was arrested at a demonstration in the West End of London in 1912 during which she and other suffragettes smashed windows with stones and hammers.

[6] On her release Sheppard received the Hunger Strike Medal from the leadership of the WSPU.

[2] She was one of 68 women, among them Emily Davison, who added their signatures or initials to The Suffragette Handkerchief embroidered by prisoners in Holloway in March 1912, and kept until 1950 by Mary Ann Hilliard, and still available to view at the Priest House, West Hoathly.