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Marion Wallace Dunlop was the first suffragette to go on a hunger strike. In 1909, she was arrested for "obstructing the police" after participating in a protest at the House of Commons in London. While in Holloway Prison, she refused to eat as a form of protest against the government's refusal to recognize women's right to vote. Her action lasted for three days, and she was released due to ill health caused by the hunger strike.

Marion Wallace Dunlop's hunger strike is significant because it introduced the tactic of hunger striking to the suffragette movement and was later adopted by many other suffragettes as a means of protest.

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The first suffragette to go on hunger strike, Marion Wallace Dunlop, was released after three days, in July 1909, and, following her example, other imprisoned suffragettes also went on hunger strike.read more >>