The forgotten suffragette jailed for blowing up a post box | Politics | The Guardian
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The largely forgotten story of a Welsh suffragette who was jailed for blowing up a post box, survived a shipwreck, and played a key role in the fight to allow women into the House of Lords is being celebrated in a series of music events and talks.
Despite a life full of adventure, as well as political activism, Margaret Haig Thomas – Lady Rhondda – is not even a well-known figure in her native south Wales. A blue plaque on the red-brick house by the post box in Newport that she targeted is one of the few nods to her.