Mary Duignan
Irish criminal and prostitute known as Chicago May
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Lilian Lenton
Militant British suffragette
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
Charlotte Marsh
One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).
Red Zora
With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.
Clara Lambert
Militant British suffragette
Mary Young
Notorious Irish pickpocket and head of a criminal gang
Alice May Parkinson
Alice May Parkinson’s conviction and imprisonment for manslaughter became a cause célèbre in New Zealand in the years before 1920.
Beatrice Cenci
Roman woman who killed her father
Flora MacKenzie
Between 1962 and 1976 Flora MacKenzie appeared in court six times on brothel-keeping charges, and was twice imprisoned for periods of six months.