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olive wharry was at winson green prison any information sort many thanks

Is that Olive Wharry who appears to have been a suffragette, aka as Joyce Locke? Lots of mentions of her in newspapers, accused of setting fire to a pavilion at Kew Gardens amongst other things.
 
Looks like Olive in 1912 was tried in London after smashing windows in the West End but served sentence in Winson Green where she was force fed.
 
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MWS said:
Is that Olive Wharry who appears to have been a suffragette, aka as Joyce Locke? Lots of mentions of her in newspapers, accused of setting fire to a pavilion at Kew Gardens amongst other things.
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Olive, aka Joyce Locke was sentenced to 18 months on 7 March 1913, but was released from Holloway in early April. She began a hunger strike that lasted 32 days and she concealed for 29 days. She had not been force fed as her condition was too weak.

(Remarkable lady !)
 
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From Wikipedia, Watercolour by Olive Wharry

circa 1942 of St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter, after the Blitz. From the Royal Albert Memorial Museum's collection (63/2004/4).
 
Pedrocut said:
Olive, aka Joyce Locke was sentenced to 18 months on 7 March 1913, but was released from Holloway in early April. She began a hunger strike that lasted 32 days and she concealed for 29 days. She had not been force fed as her condition was too weak.

(Remarkable lady !)
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she was a remarkable lady
 
This particular illustration is from the 14 March edition of the Suffragette Newspaper Votes for Women. It also details the trial proceedings for the Kew Gardens fire.
If you have access to Newspaper Archives online you can download as a pdf.
 
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