Abstract
In October 1917, Mrs. Pauline Adams, a member of the National Woman’s Party (NWP) who had been arrested and sentenced to sixty days in jail for picketing the White House in support of a national woman suffrage amendment, wrote to her son, Walter, who was back home in Virginia. “Hope everyone is all right,” the letter begins, its tone almost apologetic as Adams explains that she had been “kept from the privilege of incoming or outgoing mail for over the past week” and was “now locked in a small cell in ‘solitary.’”
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Marcellus, J. (2014). “From Prison to People”. In: Phillips, P.E. (eds) Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428684_8
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