page_title: Leonora Cohen
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Leonora Cohen / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Blue Plaque à Leeds, domicile de la suffragette Leonora Cohen de 1923 à 1936
context_page_description: Leonora Cohen OBE was a British suffragette and trade unionist, and one of the first female magistrates. She was known as the "Tower Suffragette" after smashing a display case in the Tower of London and acted as a bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst. She lived to the age of 105 and contributed to the second wave of feminism in the 1970s.
context_section_description: In the 1960s, Cohen donated her scrapbook, large collection of papers and other memorabilia to Abbey House Museum, Leeds. While her scrapbook does not give a comprehensive account of her time campaigning, it does provide an insight into what inspired her to become a suffragette. Her scrapbook  also indicates that she was interested in current affairs because it contained an article about Nurse Edith Cavell's death. The collection included a painting of her as a child by her father.
  She died in 1978, aged 105. The Times newspaper published Cohen's obituary.  This mentioned her OBE, her job as a bodyguard for Mrs Pankhurst, her imprisonment and hunger strike and her title as the "Tower Suffragette" for the damage she did with the iron bar in the Tower of London.  She was seen as a regional activist.
  Cohen attached a note to the iron bar that she threw to smash the glass cabinet in the Tower: “Jewel House, Tower of London. My Protest to the Government for its refusal to Enfranchise Women, but continues to torture women prisoners – Deeds Not Words. Lenora Cohen”/ reverse “Votes for Women. 100 years of Constitutional Petition, Resolutions, Meetings & Processions have Failed.”
caption: Blue Plaque, Leeds
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