English: A suffragette, believed to be Ada Wright, lies on the ground with gloved hands over her face near the entrance to the House of Commons, London, during the Black Friday protests of 18 November 1910. The photograph was first published by The Daily Mirror the day after the protests. The newspaper identified the woman as Ada Wright. See Michael Hiley, Seeing through photographs, Gordon Fraser, 1983, p. 28. Wright herself wrote about the experience and identified herself as the woman in the photograph. See C. Bloom, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, p. 261. Other sou
English: A suffragette, believed to be Ada Wright, lies on the ground with gloved hands over her face near the entrance to the House of Commons, London, during the Black Friday protests of 18 November 1910. The photograph was first published by The Daily Mirror the day after the protests. The newspaper identified the woman as Ada Wright. See Michael Hiley, Seeing through photographs, Gordon Fraser, 1983, p. 28. Wright herself wrote about the experience and identified herself as the woman in the photograph. See C. Bloom, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, p. 261. Other sources identifying her as Ada Wright include historian Katherine Connelly. [1] According to the National Archives, the woman is possibly Ernestine Mills and the man in the top hat may be her husband, Dr Herbert Mills. [2] . 18 November 1910 47 Black Friday, attacked suffragette on the ground (2)
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