The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, with a Facsimile of the Original.

[Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

8vo, pp. 79, [1]; with photographic illustrations; printed purple wrappers.

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The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, daughter of the famous Victorian statesman Richard Cobden, prompted a wave of letters of protest to the newspapers, giving the women’s suffrage campaign the major boost she had hoped for. The ten women with whom Cobden-Sanderson was arrested (and of whom the Home Office deemed her to be the leader) were the first group of middle-class women sentenced to prison for demanding the right to vote. The remarkable survival of the diary she wrote in Holloway Prison in 1906, the earliest known prison diary of a suffragist/suffragette, allows us to read her fascinating story without embellishment.

Dr Marianne Tidcombe provides a full transcription of the diary, with extensive notes on the characters and events mentioned. Her biographical introduction gives a full description of Cobden-Sanderson’s life, from her childhood in an intensely political household to her later career as a campaigner for equal rights, the welfare of children, and peace among nations.

Marianne Tidcombe became a friend of Annie Cobden-Sanderson’s daughter Stella (1886–1979) and her great-niece Elizabeth Cobden Boyd while writing on the life and work of Stella’s father, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Her books, The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (1984), The Doves Bindery (1991), Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 (1996), and The Doves Press (2001) were published by the British Library.

Published by the Libanus Press in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies.

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