Edith New
(1877-1951)

woman and Suffragette

Died aged 73

Edith Bessie New (17 March 1877 – 2 January 1951) was an English suffragette. She was one of the first two suffragettes to use vandalism as a tactic. She and Mary Leigh were surprised to find their destruction was celebrated and they were pulled triumphantly by lines of suffragettes on their release in 1908.

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Edith New 1877-1951 suffragette born here

24 North Street, Swindon, United Kingdom where they was born (1877)