Panel, suffragette panel

Embroidered panel worked in Holloway Prison, by Janie Terrero and hunger striking Suffragette prisoners living side by side in the prison's DX wing in 1912 The panel is embroidered in purple, white and green silk with the signature of 20 Suffragettes, including Janie who took part, in the prisoners hunger-strike of April and June 1912 and were force-fed. All were serving terms for having taken part in the window smashing campaign of March 1912. The central section of the panel has the inscription embroidered in purple 'Worked in Holloway prison by Janie Terrero' surrounded by a roundel of purple and white embroidered violets. Below is embroiderd in purple 'Mrs Pankhurst's Bold Bad Ones.' Also embroidered on the panel are the dates of the first hunger-strike 'April 15th - 19th', two prison windows and a pattern of hammers and broad prison arrows. The embroidered signatures on the panel include Vera Wentworth, Hilda Burkitt, Leonora Tyson, Lettice Floyd and Mary Aldham. Below the names is embroidered a line, below which are the words 'Second Hunger strike June 19th All released'. This may have been added at a later date.
A photographic postcard of the Suffragette leaders, Emmeline & Christabel Pankhurst is attached to the bottom of the panel that is bordered with purple, white and green silk ribbon.

Janie Terrero embroidered this panel while serving a 4 month sentence with hard labour in the second division for window smashing. Convicted of smashing 4 plate glass windows at the Oxford Street branch of Messrs Stedalls, a manufacturing retailer of women's ready to wear clothing, she was sent to Holloway prison.
In April 1912 she joined the prisoners hunger strike, along with 19 of her fellow Suffragettes held in the prison's DX wing. The women, as indicated on the panel, also endured force-feeding by the authorities in their struggle to be classed as political, rather than criminal prisoners.
This was Janie's first and only period of imprisonment for militancy.
Initially a member of the non-militant National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Janie shifted her allegiance to the militant Women's Social & Political Union in 1908.
In 1910 she established a WSPU branch in Pinner, where she lived, and became branch Honorary Secretary. Her husband Manuel Terrero was a member of the Men's Political Union For Women's Enfranchisement. The couple often hosted garden parties at their home 'Rockstone House' to raise funds for the campaign.
The panel suggests Janie's commitment and loyalty to the Pankhursts. However, following her release, she disagreed with the Pankhursts' removal of Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence from the WSPU in October 1912, and appears to have taken little part in the suffragette campaign following this split in the leadership.