Photographic portrait of Letitia Withall (Leslie Hall), Xmas 1911. Signed on reverse, "Letty Xmas 1911". Laetitia Withall, who used the alias Leslie Hall was a member of the Croydon branch of the WSPU and imprisoned 3 times for militancy. In December 1909 in Liverpool, she and Selina Martin threw a ginger beer bottle into the car of Asquith, the Prime Minister. Although Asquith was not in the car at the time, and the vehicle was undamaged, the women were arrested and imprisoned both before and after their trial. Martin broke the windows in her cell and refused to eat. She was force fed and handled violently by the prison wardresses. This episode led suffragette Lady Constance Lytton to adopt the guise of a working class suffragette, alias Jane Warton, and to publicise her experiences showing that the authorities treated working class women more brutally.
