Grace Burbridge

Grace Edith Burbridge (15 July 1887 – ) was a British suffragette, burned whilst setting fire to a postbox.

[3] By the age of 25, her salary supported her father and sister[3] living in Hartham Road, Holloway.

[3] The postman had collected the letters before noticing they were on fire and attempted to save the mail, a nearby postman noticed a woman with her arm in "blue flames" screaming, and contacted the police.

[5] Burbridge's case at the Marylebone Police Court, was defended by Arthur Marshall, husband of Kitty Marshall, who in leading her defence, emphasised Burbridge's role as the main earner for her father and sister, as a typist, and her suffering and pain.

[3] The news of her action and injury spread as far as Australia, under the headline "The Biter Bitten"[6] and in another report the magistrate was quoted as calling her "a poor deluded dupe'.