Signing up for International Womens Day run in memory of Great great Aunt...

[Sandraj39]

.. Sarah Carwin, Suffragette. She was an amazing lady who travelled to Russia, was nurse to Tzar Nicholas' children for a short while and following time at Great Ormond Street Hospital also set up a home for illegitimate babies and children. As an active member of the WSPU she was arrested and imprisoned on several occasions for her protests and window breaking activities. Following two hunger strikes and health issues cause by being force fed she had to withdraw from active protest.

Biographer Francis Marbella Unwin said of her "she spared herself nothing in the pursuit of her ideals...a few weeks before her death, she said that if she could choose any part of her life to live over again she would choose the part she had devoted to suffrage. It had seemed the most worthwhile."

What a lady!✊️✊️🙂

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

Fabulous lady and what a life! We are so very lucky to live today and in this part of the world and the older I get the more I appreciate this. We owe a huge debt to people like your auntie Sarah 🙂

I'm signing up for this.

[Millsie-J]

Ive signed up, because we can. First event off the IC😎

[misswobble Graduate10]

What a gal 💪😃. I always go on about voting in all the local elections, and that we should because we can! I think it’s important for everyone, but women in particular, and we should always exercise our franchise

[Sandraj39 Graduate10 in reply to misswobble]

Completely agree misswobble.💪

[O505k Graduate10]

Very impressive lady. We are so lucky they fought on our behalf.

[Anniemurph Graduate10]

I have signed up because the suffragettes did amazing things, but I will now run this with your great great aunt in mind. What a woman! What a debt we owe them all.

[Sandraj39 Graduate10 in reply to Anniemurph]

😊

[HeleneCorsa Graduate10]

What an amazing story, and what a debt we owe to women like her.