Jessie Stephenson

[1] She was imprisoned however in November 1910, for a month, for breaking a window, at the home of Herbert Samuel, Liberal MP, telling his maid who answered the door that 'Suffragettes do not injure flesh and blood",[2] following the harsh treatment of women protesters on Black Friday.

She was also allowed to get a letter from her barrister, saying she would lose her job and accommodation if she did not pay the fine to be released, but she refused and completed her sentence with the other imprisoned suffragettes.

Fifteen, including Stephenson and Mary Clarke, were released just before Christmas, to be met by Emmeline Pankhurst, Mabel Tuke and a group of three hundred supporters.

[2] At the celebration meal they all attended at the Criterion, Piccadilly for the release of prisoners, Stephenson was given a job offer as a paid organiser for WSPU and was placed next to Christabel Pankhurst,[2] and made a speech reported inVotes for Women 30 December 1910 "Thank God for Mrs.

She also said: Woman now has in her hands the key, to get repealed the scandalous laws made against her in the past ... We surviving warriors, battled, mauled and mostly worn out, look confidently to her to steadily and surely march towards the greatest reform the world has ever faced ...