Jennifer is the author of two books about women’s suffrage, namely Suffragettes of Kent and Secret Missions of the Suffragettes – Glass Breakers & Safe Houses.

Suffragettes of Kent tells many stories of hope, determination and sacrifice.  Chapter one tells the previously untold story of a young Kent working-class maid and suffragette, Ethel Violet Baldock. She travelled to London and was arrested for participating in the Great Militant Protest of 1912.

Secret Missions of the Suffragettes details the Great Militant Protest. Over two evenings in March 1912, more than 250 women – old and young, rich and poor, strong and delicate – were arrested and charged with using hammers and stones to smash the windows of shops and offices across London. The youngest amongst them was 19-year-old teenager Ethel, while the eldest was 79-year-old Mrs Hilda Eliza Brackenbury, owner of suffragette safe house, Mouse Castle, in Campden Hill Square. The book goes on to explore ‘behind the scenes’ of the movement; the safe houses and rest homes used by the history-shaping women involved, together with stories of the women themselves, as well as their self defence training and use of disguises and alias names, all of which were needed to be a part of such a militant campaign.

Jennifer is currently researching and writing her third book about women’s suffrage. This book is again inspired by Ethel. #ourEthel

Jennifer is available to give talks, visit schools and libraries, participate in events & festivals.  For further information see her website here.