Marion Wallace Dunlop
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Marion Wallace Dunlop was the first female suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5th July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 for militancy.
A member of the WSPU, she did not have the permission of its leaders, the autocratic Pankhurst family, to undertake this form of protest. However, shortly after word got out, hunger-striking became standard suffragette practice.
Wallace Dunlop endured 91 hours of fasting before she was released on the grounds of ill health.
In September 1909, the British Government introduced force feeding in prisons.
