England’s Most Dangerous Suffragette Was Too Radical to Remember. Her Part in Women’s History Shouldn’t Be Glossed Over

After a five-day journey from Britain that left her “more dead than alive,” Edwardian England's most dangerous Suffragette stepped off the White Star Line's Cymric on Nov. 7, 1915, and onto American soil for the first time. Having been ordered by police escort onto a dangerous wartime crossing that had already seen another passenger ship, the RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine, her departure allowed the British Government to heave a sigh of relief.

After a five-day journey from Britain that left her “more dead than alive,” Edwardian England's most dangerous Suffragette stepped off the White Star Line's Cymric on Nov. 7, 1915, and onto American soil for the first time. Having been ordered by police escort onto a dangerous wartime crossing that had already seen another passenger ship, the RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine, her departure allowed the British Government to heave a sigh of relief.