Norah Elam: Difference between revisions

Norah Dacre Fox was a prominent member of the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] and served as general secretary by 1913. Dacre Fox operated as an effective propagandist, delivering rousing speeches at the WSPU weekly meetings and writing many of [[Christabel Pankhurst]]'s speeches.<ref name='McPherson & McPherson'>{{cite book| last =McPherson| first =Angela| author2 =McPherson, Susan| title =Mosley's Old Suffragette – A Biography of Norah Elam| year =2011| url =http://www.oldsuffragette.co.uk| isbn =978-1-4466-9967-6| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120113154415/http://www.oldsuffragette.co.uk/| archive-date =13 January 2012| df =dmy-all}}</ref> In May 1914 [[Flora Drummond]] and Norah Dacre Fox besieged the homes of [[Edward Carson]] and [[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne|Lord Lansdowne]], both prominent [[Ulster Unionist Party|Ulster Unionist]] MPspoliticians who had been directly inciting militancy in Ulster against the [[Irish Home Rule movement|Home Rule Bill]] then going through Parliament. Drummond and Dacre Fox had both been issued with summonses to appear before magistrates for 'making inciting speeches' and encouraging women to militancy. Their response to journalists who interviewed them was that they thought they should take refuge with Carson and Lansdowne who had also been making speeches and encouraging militancy in Ireland, but who appeared to be safe from interference from the authorities for doing so. Later the same day both women appeared before a magistrate, were sentenced to imprisonment and taken to [[Holloway Prison]] where they immediately commenced [[hunger strike|hunger and thirst strikes]] and endured a period of force feeding.<ref name='McPherson & McPherson'/> From May to July 1914 she was imprisoned three times<ref name=Durham/> in [[Holloway Prison]] for "acts of terrorism"; she received a WSPU [[Hunger Strike Medal]] with three [[Medal bar|bars]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.spink.com/news/news_archive/6007.asp |title=Spink Numismatic and Philatelic Auction and Dealing News: Coins, Banknotes, Medals, Stamps and Books |access-date=3 January 2012 |archive-date=18 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218190452/http://www.spink.com/news/news_archive/6007.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>