Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst pictured soon after their arrest together in 1905
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“Miss Browne is sleeping in Annie’s room now.”
So wrote Mary Blathwayt when ousted from the bed of suffragette Annie Kenney. Mary had met Annie at a women’s suffrage meeting and adored her from the start. She was not the only one. At least two other suffragettes, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Clare Mordan, said they had fallen in love with Annie the first time they met her.