{"id":27434,"date":"2023-07-31T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T06:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=238108"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:11:37","slug":"a-jujitsu-trained-suffragette-bodyguard","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/a-jujitsu-trained-suffragette-bodyguard\/","title":{"rendered":"A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emelyne Godfrey speaks about the unorthodox life of Kitty Marshall \u2013 a cricket-ball-wielding, martial-arts-trained suffragette ready to go fist-to-fist with the police for votes for women <\/p>

By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 31 July 2023 at 06:40 AM<\/p>

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Known as \u201cMrs Pankhurst\u2019s bodyguard\u201d, Kitty Marshall was a cricket-ball-wielding, jujitsu-trained suffragette ready to go fist-to-fist with the police in her fight for votes for women. Historian and biographer Emelyne Godfrey tells Ellie Cawthorne more about Kitty\u2019s unorthodox life, and the tense game of cat-and-mouse that suffragettes were locked in with Met police.<\/p>\n\n

Emelyne Godfrey is the author of Mrs Pankhurst\u2019s Bodyguard: On the Trail of \u2018Kitty\u2019 Marshall and the Met Police \u2018Cats\u2019<\/em> (History Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n