Florence Jane Short (aka Rachel Peace) (born 25 April 1881 – after 1932)[1][2] was a British feminist and suffragette, who was imprisoned and force-fed.

The police caught the women in the early hours, and as Mary was out of prison under the Cat and Mouse Act, Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 to recover from ill health but on licence to return to serve the rest of their original sentence, when they were both arrested for arson, but refused to identify themselves.

And church services at St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey were disrupted by large groups of women chanting a loud prayer to God in favour of Short & Richardson, the cruelty of force-feeding and justice of the cause.

The Bishop of London did visit women in Holloway Prison, where they were being force-fed, and reported that Short (Peace) was pale but not unduly thin or distressed.

[citation needed] Short was able to write secretly to Mary Richardson and Kitty Marion whilst they were all in prison, in pencil using thin brown lavatory paper.