Sarah Jane Carwin was a British suffragette, feminist and nurse.
14 Facts About Sarah Carwin
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In 1890, returned to England, Carwin joined the Methodist Sisterhood of West London Mission, where Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence had been a volunteer working with seasonal garment trade female workers.
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Sarah Carwin completed training as a nurse at Great Ormond Street children's hospital in 1896.
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Sarah Carwin worked as a private nurse and travelled with a child to Ecuador and revisited Russia several times.
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Sarah Carwin said she was interested in feminism, influenced by reading Olive Schreiner, and 'when the suffragette movement began to be known, it strongly appealed to her.
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Sarah Carwin had never taken part in politics or interested herself much in them; but here was an adventure, a crusade against injustice, an ideal to be served.
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Sarah Carwin was arrested with Constance Lytton, Caprina Fahey, Rose Lamartine Yates, Daisy Solomon and over 20 others in 1909, in her case her prison citation was for breaking windows.
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Sarah Carwin was sentenced with Ada Wright to one month, and broke all the cell windows in protest.
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Sarah Carwin objected that men sat whilst women stood, and chairs were provided.
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Sarah Carwin was sentenced to six months with hard labour in Winson Green Prison.
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Sarah Carwin moved to the country for many years with a female friend to whom she was 'devotedly attached' until her friend died.
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Sarah Carwin then lived in the South of France and Italy.
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Sarah Carwin returned to England living in 3 The Crescent, Sandgate Kent, England, and died in 1933.
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Sarah Carwin left her property in Letchworth to a niece as a requirement in her will was that it should only pass to a female relative on her mother's side.