| 词条 | Mary Leigh |
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LifeLeigh was born as Mary or Marie Brown in 1885. She was born in Manchester and was a schoolteacher until her marriage to a builder, surnamed Leigh. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906, aged 20 or 21. On 17 September 1909, she and Charlotte Marsh climbed onto the roof of Bingley Hall in Birmingham to protest at being excluded from a political meeting where the British Prime Minister Asquith was giving a speech. They threw tiles which they levered up with an axe at Asquith's car and at the police. Leigh was given sentences totaling four months in Winson Green Prison. There she again protested about not being treated as a political prisoner by breaking a window and by going on hunger strike. Leigh was force-fed in Winson Green gaol in 1909.[4] On 18 July 1912 in Dublin, she threw a hatchet at Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, hitting instead Irish nationalist leader John Redmond who was injured. Leigh was unhappy with the WSPU, but refused to leave when Emmeline Pankhurst asked for loyalty or for members to leave. She remained loyal as she felt an ownership for the organisation she had helped create.[5] After Emily Davison was run over by the king's horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, Leigh and Rose Yates was at the dying Davison's bedside, and headed a guard of honour for the funeral procession.[3] World War I precipitated a split between Leigh, Yates and other leading suffragettes with Emmeline Pankhurst. Pankhurst had agreed that the WSPU would suspend its militant campaign for female suffrage and back the government's fight against Germany. Leigh and other radicals disagreed with this policy, and broke away to form the "Suffragettes of the WSPU" (SWSPU).[5] The organisation intended to be militant and national but never achieved a large impact. Like the Independent WSPU, it was created in 1916. The SWSPU passed a resolution to concentrate on women's suffrage and to not encourage debate about former WSPU leaders.[6] TerrorismSimon Webb, author of a book on suffragette terrorism, wrote in a letter to The Guardian that Leigh and other radical suffragettes set fire to a theatre full of people and bombed it. They were prosecuted for "endangering life".[7] See also
References{{commons category|Mary Leigh}}1. ^{{cite book|title=Emmeline Pankhurt: A Biography|last=Purvis|first=June|authorlink=June Purvis|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-23978-3|pages=109–110}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leigh, Mary}}2. ^{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/08/25/100374686.pdf|title=Starving Suffragist Ill|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=13 April 2011|date=25 August 1912}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866–1928|last=Crawford|first=Elizabeth|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-23926-4|pages=338–40, 764}} 4. ^Myall, M. (23 September 2004). Leigh [née Brown], Mary [Marie] (b. 1885, d. in or after 1965), militant suffragette. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; retrieved [https://web.archive.org/web/20171201232831/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-56240 1 December 2017] 5. ^{{cite book|last=Crawford|first=Elizabeth|title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a2EK9P7-ZMsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Women%27s+Suffrage+Movement:+A+Reference+Guide&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MZ5UVfzVL-Ga7gaSnIDQAw&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Women%27s%20Suffrage%20Movement%3A%20A%20Reference%20Guide&f=false|year=1999|location=London|publisher=UCL Press|page=763–64|isbn=978-1-84142-031-8}} 6. ^1 {{cite book|author=Krista Cowman|title=Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904-18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6cbvP3XF0yMC&pg=PA162|date=15 July 2007|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-7002-0|page=190}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/10/suffragettes-did-commit-terrorist-acts|title=Suffragettes did commit terrorist acts - Letters|first=|last=Letters|date=10 June 2018|publisher=theguardian.com}} 12 : British people of World War I|English women in politics|British women's rights activists|English feminists|English suffragists|Feminism and history|People from Manchester|Women's rights activists|1885 births|1978 deaths|20th-century English criminals|Prisoners and detainees of England and Wales |
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