Welsh suffragette Margaret Mackworth honoured with an 8ft bronze statue in Newport

Margaret Mackworth fought for women's rights for 40 years. Her ardent protests, including going connected a hunger strike, adjacent saw her onshore herself successful situation for the cause

A suffragette jailed for a weaponry onslaught volition beryllium honoured with a statue successful her hometown today. Margaret Mackworth campaigned to springiness women the close to ballot successful the aboriginal 20th century.

She posted a homemade weaponry successful a nationalist letterbox and was jailed for 5 days. The businesswoman and writer past went connected hunger strike.

Margaret, known arsenic Lady Rhondda, from Llanwern successful Newport, South Wales, died successful 1958, conscionable earlier the instrumentality she fought 40 years for – to fto women beryllium successful the House of Lords – was changed.

An 8ft bronze and alloy statue volition beryllium unveiled successful Newport and Helen Molyneux, seat of Monumental Welsh Women, called her “an inspirational woman”.

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