Adelaide Knight

Adelaide Knight, also known as Eliza Adelaide Knight, (1871-1950), was a British suffragette.[1][2]

Biography

In 1906 suffragettes Knight, Annie Kenney, and Mrs. Sparborough were arrested when they tried to obtain an audience with H. H. Asquith, a prominent member of the Liberals.[1][3][4] Offered either six weeks in prison or giving up campaigning for one year, despite her poor health Knight chose prison, as did the other women.[1]

Knight worked as a secretary for the Women's Social and Political Union in Canning Town, but resigned as such in 1907 due to the lack of democracy in the Women's Social and Political Union.[1] She also served as a Poor Law Guardian for West Ham.[2]

Due to being injured in childhood she used a stick or crutches; she also repeatedly had poor health.[1] She was friends with Dora Montefiore.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Adelaide Knight, leader of the first east London suffragettes — East End Women's Museum
  2. 1 2 Diane Atkinson (8 February 2018). Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 578–. ISBN 978-1-4088-4406-9.
  3. ↑ Rosemary Taylor (4 August 2014). East London Suffragettes. History Press. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-0-7509-6216-2.
  4. ↑ "Herbert Asquith - British History - HISTORY.com". HISTORY.com. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
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