Emily Duval twice joined the Women's Social and Political Union and she was a member of the Women's Freedom League.
11 Facts About Emily Duval
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Emily Duval served several terms of imprisonment and her family members were suffragettes.
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Emily Duval joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1906, but she left the following year to join the more democratic Women's Freedom League.
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Emily Duval was the chair of the WFL group in Battersea.
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Emily Duval was arrested in 1908 together with her daughter Barbara.
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Muriel Matters and Emily Duval were given an imprisonment badge by Charlotte Despard of the WFL.
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Emily Duval served six weeks at one time with Constance Lytton in 1909.
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In 1910 her son Victor Emily Duval founded the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement.
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Emily Duval soon broke some windows and once arrested she broke some more.
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Emily Duval was force fed and then released to a nursing home.
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In 1913 her daughter Elsie Emily Duval became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'.