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Charlotte Despard
1844–1939
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- politician
Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 â 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- HM Prison HollowayDates unknown
Biography
Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 â 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, the Women's Peace Crusade, and the Irish Women's Franchise League, and an activist in a wide range of political organizations over the course of her life, including among others the Women's Social and Political Union, Humanitarian League, Labour Party, Cumann na mBan, and the Communist Party of Great Britain. Despard was imprisoned four times for her suffragette activism, and she continued campaigning for women's rights, poverty relief and world peace into her 90s.
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