page_title: Charlotte Blacklock
section_title: Involvement in the suffrage movement
hierarchical_section_title: Charlotte Blacklock / Involvement in the suffrage movement
caption_attribution_description: English: 7JCC/O/02/046 Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, women selling 'Votes for Women' in the street, stuck on paper on the reverse of 7JCC/O/2/45; manuscript inscription 'Jul 1908. Selling 'Votes for women' in Fleet St'
context_page_description: Charlotte Blacklock was a British suffragette, given a Hunger Strike Medal for her going on a hunger strike in the cause of women's right to vote.
context_section_description: Blacklock joined the London Chelsea branch of the Women's Social and Political Union before November 1908, when she wrote in Votes for Women about the parades wearing 
  'placards of purple, green, and white....acting the part of sandwich men'  and speakers Mrs Penn Gaskell, Miss Naylor and (coming soon) Miss Canning being used to attract a 'fashionable audience' in Sloane Square.
  In April the following year, Blacklock was writing about the Chelsea Art Stall for WSPU and visit by author Laurence Housman, co-founder of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.
  Blacklock was also among the first of seeking what would now be called 'crowdfunders' to help pay the rent for a local shop for merchandising materials for the WSPU in Chelsea
  Blacklock was arrested on 11 March 1912, for breaking windows of Charles Lynton in Picadilly, London which were valued at £6 15shillings, a point disputed by her defence at the trial. Altogether one hundred and twenty-six (or two hundred and twenty women took part but not all were charged , depending on source) and the estimate of damage worth an estimated £4000 or even as much as £6000. The violence and arrests were described in the press as far away as Australia.
  Australian women achieved the vote before the British women.
  
  Blacklock was given a severe sentence of four months imprisonment. She went on hunger strike and was force-fed.  
  She signed an autograph book 1 May 1912, along with other prisoners at Birmingham Prison, auctioned in 2012.
  Blacklock was awarded one of the one hundred Hunger Strike Medals 'for Valour' with the date 1 March 1912 on the bar, in recognition of her suffering for the cause by the WSPU. Her medal is since 2011  in the Museum of Australian Democracy, with a portrait of her painted by her cousin Amy Sawyers.
caption: Votes for Women newspaper
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