Suffragettes released from Holloway prison

Vera Wentworth, Elsie Howey, Maud Joachim and Florence Haig on their release from Holloway prison, September 1908. The suffragettes had served three months' imprisonment for participating in a deputation to the House of Commons. On their release, the women were transported to a breakfast reception at the Queen's Hall by a carriage accompanied by 50 women. Elsie Howey the daughter of a rector and Vera Wentworth previously a shop worker were members of The Young Hot Bloods a group of young suffragettes, fiercely loyal to Emmeline & Christabel Pankhurst. This secretive group, dedicated to carrying out 'danger duty' met every Saturday at 4.30pm in Alan's Tea Rooms in Oxford Street and were used by the WSPU to lead protests, organise parliamentary demonstrations and harass government ministers. As 'career militants' The Young Hot Bloods regularly faced imprisonment and suffered with courage the pain and violence of hunger-strike and force feeding which, for many, caused long term damage to their health.