Violet Frances Key Jones (17 June 1883 – 30 August 1958) was an Anglo-Irish writer and suffragette who was the treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in York, England.

[6] She organised public meetings and protests from her Doncaster office on Hall Gate,[7] and her home on Osbourne Road in York became a safe house for suffragettes, such as Lilian Lenton, Kathleen Brown and Augusta Mary Ann Winship.

[10] In 1912, 18-year-old journalist Harry Johnson, a supporter of women's enfranchisement and possible member of the Men's Political Union (MPU),[11] was sentenced to a year's imprisonment in Wakefield Gaol with hard labour for attempting to blow up a house near Doncaster for the cause.

[5] Jones was lucky to not have been implicated and arrested herself, as detectives searching the grounds of a suspect property found her name on a piece of paper with a copy of The Suffragette newspaper, two gallons of paraffin and a box of fire-lighters.

[3] In March 1913, Jones chained herself to a chair, heckled and disrupted a meeting held by the anti-suffrage politicians Phillip Snowden and Keir Hardie at the Exhibition Buildings in York.