The suffragette, Gladice Georgina Keevil, lived at Clitterhouse Farm between 1884 and 1913; her father rented the ‘model farm’ with its mid-Victorian farmhouse and yard from St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1874 to 1926. The picture above from the Clitterhouse Farm website shows the farm – identified as Clutterhouse – and the family involvement in Dairy and Meat production.
Gladice joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the militant wing of the British woman suffrage movement in 1907 and became a popular speaker at events. The Daily News described her as ‘a particularly striking figure who ‘scolded’ and ‘smiled’ beneath a black straw hat with a waving white ostrich feather.
The March of the Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCtGkCg7trY
Meet the Suffragettes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rvty0tsEts
In February 1908 Gladice was one of those arrested with Emmeline Pankhurst when taking part in a demonstration outside the House of Commons and sentenced to six weeks imprisonment in Holloway. Details of the treatment of Suffragettes in prison are recorded at the National Archives https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=Gladice+Keevil and the Roll of Honour of Suffragette prisoners 1905 to 1914 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ee5a777f-1d7c-416b-a249-c7cb64fcc0a8
The British Newspapers Archive provides significant information about the activities of the Suffragettes, and for links to Gladice Keevil see
On her release from Holloway Prison she was appointed National Organiser in the Midlands and established an office in Birmingham. She gave a speech in July 2008 as reported by The Leeds Mercury: “Miss Gladice Keevil, a young lady with a winning smile and a most becoming hat, exerted a distinct influence upon her hearers. She admitted that some of the doings of the Suffragettes had not been quite lady-like, but she pleaded that they had done nothing unwomanly.”
For more information about Gladice Keevil see the following links:
https://spartacus-educational.com/WkeevilG.htm
https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/bio-gladice-keevil
For glass plate pictures of Gladice Keevil https://www.bathintime.co.uk/suffragette-gladice-keevil-1910-17633.html
And for more information on suffragettes:
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/explore/who-were-suffragettes?gclid=CjwKCAjw7fuJBhBdEiwA2lLMYUnVmPkm510mvP3ftOYuZq9myR9y37i22iU1x311LloJnc-brMfl4hoCP8sQAvD_BwE