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Booklet "HOLLOWAY JINGLES". Collection of poems written by suffragettes in Holloway Prison, March/April 1912. Includes three poems by Kate Williams Evans, two entitled "Who?" and another entitled "The Cleaners of Holloway". Also includes one poem, "L'Envoi", by Emily Wilding Davison. Grey paper cover with two drawings of prison cell interior on the front. Poems collected by Scottish suffragette prisoner Nancy John and published by the Glasgow Branch of the WSPU
Kate Williams Evans, born inMontgomeryshire in 1866, was sentenced to two months hard labour for malicious damage, having smashed a window in a government building in London. She served 54 days in Holloway Prison in March-April 1912, during which she went on hunger strike.