Elsie Diederichs Duval | |
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Born | 1892 |
Died | 1919 |
Other names | Eveline Dukes |
Known for | Suffragette |
Political party | Women's Party |
Movement | Women's Social and Political Union |
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Elsie Diederichs Duval (1892–1919) was a British suffragette. She was arrested many times throughout her life and in 1913 became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'.[1]
Elsie died from heart failure on 1 January 1919 caused by septic pneumonia during the influenza epidemic.[2]