november august newspaper editor born wales attending science teacher quit job hearing speak women suffrage member moved london fled paris asked joint national campaign despite having background charge newly formed newspaper arrested occasion activities linked suffrage movement spent time avoiding arrest later life relationship australian author supported trial hall book loneliness early life born land road surveyor second wife welsh speakers grew town elder brother younger sister census mother anne lone adult living address father having died educated boarding school sister won scholarship graduated external london degree science teacher taught life early activism end attended suffrage rally cardiff inspired speech join end meeting following year active activist helped organise meetings cardiff barry year sharing stage speakers spoke behalf meetings welsh conflicted role disapproved publicity especially news flour bombed rally local papers july resigned teacher enrolled intending study economics work august heavily active campaigning bury election active campaign activities free attend proved useful attending activities nearby christmas period busy campaigning time lead election shortly asked time offer leave course regretted giving studies accepted position stating definite spent campaign nottingham working elections june year chairman platforms rally work took toll health shortly forced temporarily step position included period time recovering moved closer home bristol soon agreed resume role paid sent newport south east wales continue duties chosen lead group women talk chancellor role supporting bill meeting lasted half hours end convinced support equal voting rights believed women suffrage end year post changed organising activities wales relocated country headquarters cardiff according writing individual worked harder promote campaign wales editor selected help run national campaign following raid police subsequent flight paris moved london months given role assistant editor newspaper launch october writing autobiography described editor task knew journalism taking job took risks connected increasingly militant travelled cover paris meet speaking phone recalled hear click listening years key figure keeping newspaper print despite home secretary efforts suppress april offices raided police staff arrested charges damage property sentenced months imprisonment immediately went hunger strike transferred canterbury prison days released cat mouse act moved mouse castle home family sympathetic weeks house emerged arrested went hunger strike days released mouse castle time smuggled house disguise allow speak meetings arrested second time time released hunger strike time successfully authorities fled nursing home edinburgh remained december leaving scotland returned secret london hid lincoln inn house lived continued edit travelled paris discuss future newspaper offices raided result meeting relocation edinburgh risk arrest moved edinburgh assumed pseudonym miss continued publish paper final edition week world war declared war vocal supporter british military action majority movement contributor launched sponsor campaigns compromise peace industrial strikes passing representation people act women united_kingdom given right vote continuing fight emancipation voting rights won helped raise funds important figure raising money needed erect statue victoria tower gardens near palace westminster london understood international connections suffrage contacted important canadian american financial support obituary read raising statue stands permanent memorial rachel organising ability appointed secretary organisation sought equality men women political spheres relationship time editing struck friendship australian author contributed paper started relationship lovers travelled united_states bought car spent year travelling country stayed new_york san_francisco recorded census living california classed head household friend women remained close time supporters close friend trial loneliness died left estate later life later life joined particularly close lived near attempted publish memoir marshall late 1940s turned publication moved essex early 1930s joined remaining member lived lamb cottage died cerebral august sussex seventy years old left lamb cottage niece lived husband british poet reading woman called john isbn life george unconventional autobiography isbn
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