Ada S Flatman - Standing with arms pulled behind back, wearing dark, belted dress with stain trim, small bow at v-neck and beaded necklace - c1916
Ada Susan Flatman was born in Suffolk in 1876. She was of independent means and became interested in women's rights. She lived in the same Twentieth Century Club Notting Hill rooms as fellow activist Jessie Stephenson. Flatman was sent to Holloway Prison after she took part in the raid on the Houses of Parliament in 1908, led by Marion Wallace Dunlop, Ada Wright, and Katherine Douglas Smith, and a second wave by Una Dugdale. The following year she was employed by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to organise their activities in Liverpool taking over from Mary Phillips. Flatman arranged humble lodgings for Constance Lytton when she came to Liverpool disguised as a working woman, aiming to get arrested for suffragette activism to created suitable publicity. In May 1909, Flatman was in Bristol, and evaded detectives assigned to follow her – and many uniformed police officers – to distribute handbills about the suffragette cause. This took place in the Royal Hotel on the occasion of a speech to the Chamber of Commerce by the anti-suffrage politician Augustine Birrell. In December of the same year, she was one of those in the Royal Albert Hall to protest against David Lloyd George's position regarding women's suffrage. In a contemporary newspaper account in the London Evening Standard, suffrage campaigner Frances Ede described how stewards dragged Flatman from her seat and removed her "with quite needless violence" Wikipedia
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