Annie Kenney

Overview

Annie Kenney born Springhead, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England September 13, 1879 (d. 1953). Militant working-class suffragist whose arrest for heckling Churchill marked start of militant phase 1905; jailed 3 days; 12 later arrests and force-feeding 1913; opposed World War I.

Quotations

On Christabel Pankhurst's order for suffragists to support war: "This autocratic move was not understood or appreciated by many of our members. They were quite prepared to receive instructions about the Vote, but they were not going to be told what they were to do in a world war." (Memories of a Militant, 1924)