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Edith Ruth Mansell-Moullin, 17th June 1911. Photographed at the Women's Coronation Procession, dressed in Welsh national dress. She is either knitting or crocheting. Edith's husband was an eminent doctor and vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons, who repeatedly condemned the Government's force-feeding of hunger-striking suffragette prisoners. Edith was present on 'Black Friday', 18th November 1910, when peaceful deputation to the House of Commons turned into a riot outside Westminster as more than a hundred and fifty suffragettes were assaulted by a police force said to numbered five thousand. Riots broke out again the following week and Edith was back again, taking part in the Battle of Downing Street. In 1911 she served a month in Holloway Gaol after being arrested while on a deputation led by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence to the House of Commons.