Casgliadau Arlein

Letter to accompany illluminated address awarded to Kate Williams Evans on May 16th 1912 by the Women's Social and Political Union following her imprisonment at Holloway between March 5th - April 29th 1912. The address was originally accompanied by a prison brooch

Kate Williams Evans, born in Montgomeryshire in 1866, was sentenced to 2 months hard labour for maliciousl damage, having smashed a window in a government building. She served 54 days in Holloway Prison, during which she went on hunger strike.