Edith New

Edith New
by Peter Nairn of Hawick
Born
Edith Bessie New

17 March 1877
Swindon, England
Died2 January 1951 (age 73)
Liskeard, England
Known forFirst suffragette vandal

Edith Bessie New (17 March 1877 – 2 January 1951) was an English suffragette who was one of the first two suffragettes to use vandalism as a tactic. She and Mary Leigh were surprised to find their destruction was celebrated, and they were pulled triumphantly by lines of suffragettes on their release from prison in 1908.

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