She resulted from her father's second marriage and a family row led to her emigrating to Britain with the name of Margot Schenke in about 1908.

[1] Schenke was afraid that she might be deported so she gave her name as Margaret Scott and under this name she was sentenced to a month's imprisonment in Holloway Prison.

[3] The pictures were taken from a concealed car during prisoners' exercise using an 11-inch powerful lens which had only recently been made in Britain.

It was required because the suffragettes would distort their faces when conventional mug shots were being taken and the Home Office was worried by the impact of their arson and vandal attacks.

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst had declared a truce for their suffragettes and Schenke believed that the fight for the vote was more or less won.