Jessie Kenney
UK suffragette · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1887 to 1985 · aged 98
Jessica "Jessie" Kenney (1887-1985) was an English suffragette who was jailed for assaulting the Prime Minister and Home Secretary in a protest to gain suffrage for women in the UK.
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Mary Blathwayt planting a tree at Suffragette's Rest with Vera Holme, Jessie and Annie Kenney in 1909
Daisy Solomon and Elspeth McClelland with a post boy, police and an official outside 10 Downing Street, attempting to get themselves delivered as letters
Kenney's offices at WSPU HQ (Clement's Inn) in 1911About this person
Details of a bombing campaign to support their cause were discovered by the authorities in her flat when Kenney was sent abroad to convalesce. She later trained as a wireless operator but worked as a stewardess.