Gertrude Wilkinson

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

[14] 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 Doreen Allen.

[15] A member of the Sheffield branch of the WSPU, in 1913 Wilkinson became the Literature Secretary for the Women's Freedom League (WFL).

[4] In the group photograph of Suffragettes shown Edith Marian Begbie is on the left with Wilkinson in the centre and Florence Macfarlane on the right.

The child kneeling in front of the hammock is three year old Paul Lamartine Yates, the son of Rose Emma Lamartine Yates, the Organising Secretary and Treasurer of the Wimbledon branch of the WSPU and at whose home, Dorset Hall in Merton Park the photograph was taken in about 1912.

Gertrude Wilkinson campaigning in Whitstable in 1909
Hunger striking Suffragettes resting in the garden of Dorset Hall c.1912 L to R: Edith Marian Begbie , three year old Paul, the son of Rose Emma Lamartine Yates , Gertrude Wilkinson and Florence Macfarlane