Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's scrapbook
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Title
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's scrapbook
Subject
Militancy
Description
This scrapbook containing newspaper clippings was found among Jessie Kenney’s papers. The page on the left presents a newspaper clipping from 26 May 1966 of Bernard Levin’s column for the Daily Mail. In it, he writes about the popular success of the Home Secretary Mr. Roy Jenkins’s prison reforms. More specifically this refers to the direction sent to Prison Department’s institutions for women and girls to be referred to either by given name and surname or the prefix “Miss” or “Mrs” followed by the surname, instead of just by their surname as had been the case until that point. “Why is this not only praise-worthy, but important?”, writes Levin, “Because people in prison are human beings”. Jessie records her own feelings on the subject in handwriting, recalling her time spent as a suffragette prisoner. “Re my own imprisonment in Holloway [. . .] I was No.2 other women were treated the same way. Had we been murderers or bank breakers we could not have been treated worse. We lost our identity.”
Unable to gain rights permission from the Daily Mail to display newspaper article.
Unable to gain rights permission from the Daily Mail to display newspaper article.
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Publisher
Unknown
Date
26 May 1966
Contributor
Bernard Levin, The Daily Mail
Rights
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included here by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families.
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Identifier
KP/JK/4/3/1
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Collection
Citation
Kenney, Jessie, “Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's scrapbook,” Suffragette Stories, accessed April 20, 2024, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/84.