Signed Limited Edition Print of 12
30 x 30cm
Printed on Museum Etching 350gsm paper
 
As seen at my solo exhibition 'Six Hills Secrets'  at Stevenage Museum, 9th March - 28 April 2026.
 
Constance Lytton (1869-1923) was a writer, a speaker, a campaigner for prison reform and an influential suffragette. Born into wealth and privilege, Lytton was a class ally, donating her great aunt’s £1,000 inheritance in 1905 to a Morris dancing club for working class girls. She was politicised in part by her meeting famous suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on the platform at Stevenage Railway Station and joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). When imprisoned she used the name Jane Warton to avoid special treatment reserved for the upper classes. Whilst in prison she was forcibly fed and protested through carving the V of Votes for Women on her chest. Her memoirs Prison & Prisoners exposed the class bias in the prison system.
 
The church, built between 1956-60, is the largest parish church in England since WWII. The Architects Seely & Paget used a Festival of Britain style with a gothic cathedral form including copper vaulted roofs, concrete flying buttresses and clerestory windows.