15 Facts About Miriam Pratt

Miriam Pratt was a British suffragette and arsonist based in Norfolk who is known for setting fire to buildings in Cambridge.

Miriam Pratt joined the suffragettes, other leading suffragettes in Norfolk included Caprina Fahey, Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh, and Grace Marcon.

Miriam Pratt made the point that although women were getting a university education, they were not being allowed to be given university degrees because of their gender.

Miriam Pratt was arrested on 22 May 1913, and she was suspended from her job.

Miriam Pratt was at a protest at her local market against the Cat and Mouse Act in Norwich while awaiting trial.

Miriam Pratt interrogated her uncle, a police officer, as his evidence to the court had been based on conversations with her that he had made without giving her a police caution.

Miriam Pratt was sentenced by Mr Justice Bray to eighteen months in jail, was sacked from her job and was taken to Holloway Prison.

Miriam Pratt went on hunger strike for five days and was force fed.

Miriam Pratt was released under the terms of the Cat and Mouse Act as the doctor was concerned about her heart from the force feeding, with the medical recommendation of three months' rest.

Miriam Pratt was labelled number 18 on a sheet that included Jennie Baines, Lillian Forrester, Clara Elizabeth Giveen, Miss Johansen, Lilian Lenton, Kitty Marion and Mary Raleigh Richardson.

Miriam Pratt left the WSPU when the organisation stopped its campaigning for suffrage and its leadership pivoted into support for the First World War.

Miriam Pratt returned to Norwich and married Bernard Francis on 19 May 1915.

Miriam Pratt had been a member of the Men's League For Women's Suffrage and joined the Royal Engineers early in WWI, reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

In 1936, William Ward, died and left his niece, now called Miriam Pratt Francis, a half share of his property.

Miriam Pratt died age 82 in 1975 in Horton Hospital in Epsom, Surrey.