... and her companions were struggling with their lives for women's freedom, the horrors of the hunger strike and the Cat and Mouse Act, were so vividly portrayed by Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence that they stirred old memories in the hearts of many there who had ...

... the Government candidate for Whitechapel, but the defiant, indomitable fugitive. Mrs. Pankhurst of the abominable Cat and Mouse Act. But where was Christabel ? In prison doubtless—one expected gaps of that sort on those Monday afternoon meetings. What ...

... Pankhurst, perverse and obstinate with courage, growing visibly frailer week by week under the cruel tension of the Cat and Mouse Act . Mrs. Pankhurst radiating always, in street or hall, prison or police-court, that impenetrable aura of personal dignity ...

... deny to them courage and heroism. We are glad that they were released in time, we are thankful that the cruelty of the Cat and Mouse Act is not to be inflicted upon them; and we trust that if in the future the adherents of any other belief think to advance ...

... daughter Christabel were the leading spirits. As a woman in the early fifties she was in and out of prison under the Cat and Mouse Act, sometimes reduced to extreme weakness after a hunger strike. What a terrific strain such a life must have been for ...