Laetitia Withall

Laetitia Withall (30 August 1881 – 11 March 1963) was an Australian-born poet, author and militant suffragette who campaigned in the United Kingdom for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) under the name Leslie Hall.

[1] Withall was born in Adelaide in Australia in 1881, the daughter of her British-born parents Louisa Margaret née Reed (1858–1951) and architect Latham Augustus Withall, OBE[2] (1853–1925)[3] and moved with her family to the United Kingdom when she was aged 7;[4] here she was to remain for the rest of her life but never forgot the country of her birth.

[6] On 21 December 1909 in Liverpool she and Selina Martin approached the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith as he was leaving his motor car, and tackled him on the subject of women's rights.

But indeed, the inaccuracy of Mr. Gladstone's statements had become proverbial, for he was constantly denying the truth of charges which were clearly substantiated by the most reliable evidence.

Her signature is among those embroidered on The Suffragette Banner designed at the Glasgow School of Art by Ann Macbeth (1875–1948) and her students and today held in the collection of the Museum of London.