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Maud Mary Brindley during her arrest in 1914.

Maud Mary Brindly arrested 1908 for trying toraid house of commons sentenced 5 months, 1913

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Maud Mary Brindly

Militant suffragette from Carlisle, Scotland

arrested 1908 for trying toraid house of commons sentenced 5 months, 1913

A fact about her activities as a suffragettes: She have been sent to prison in February 1913 “maliciously damaging two plate glass windows, property of T.Lloyd and company, to the amount of £32”. In 1908 she took part in an attempt to raid the House of Commons.

EARLY LIFE

Maud was born in Carlisle in 1860 [ref cumbria crack] became and an artist before moving to Hampstead. She was an active member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. She was arrested for breaking windows in London’s Oxford Street.

ACTIVISM

Branded a terrorist by the British government and imprisoned with the Pankhursts in Holloway[ccrack],  Brindley was put on the Special Branch’s national watch list.

consdered/ not certain:

suggesting Maud was imprisoned in Holloway with the leader of the movement, Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters.

Brindley eventually moved to Hampstead in north London, became an artist and did time in prison for smashing windows on the capital’s Oxford Street. She died in Kent in September 1939, days after the start of WW2 and eleven years after all women had been granted the vote at the age of 21 on the same terms as men.[cc]

Maud was an active WSPU member. Devising from scratch is quite time consuming so I started writing for the first time after doing a playwriting course with Darren Harper at Fisher Street Galleries. I was able to use quite a few first hand accounts from suffragettes and official documents online and have used my artistic licence to flesh the story out where I reached dead ends. Although the plot follows Maud, we also cover the local and national story of women’s fight for suffrage.”[cc]

PLAY / INFO ON PLAY

playwright: Jane Reardon was head of drama at Ullswater Community College,

play, which is called Number 8

“One of the reasons I became interested in Maud is because she was one of a number of suffragettes who were considered the first ‘terrorists’ in the UK,” said Jane.” A number of suffragettes had their photos taken in secret by Scotland Yard so they could keep tabs on them. Maud was number eight.” -- Jane Reardon

play: The plot follows Maud, but also tells the local and national story of women’s fight for suffrage.”

ONLY KNOWN IMAGE

The only known photo of Maud is displayed alongside shots of other suffragettes in exhibitions at the Museum of London and the National Portrait Gallery.