Evaline Hilda Burkitt
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Evaline Hilda Burkitt (19 July 1876 ā 7 March 1955) was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suffragette to be forcibly-fed. Between 1909 and 1914 she was force-fed 292 times[1] and was the last woman to be so treated in Holloway Prison. She was a recipient of the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.