SUFFRAGETTE, NORA ELAM – Holloway Prison

Norah Elam also known as Norah Dacre Fox, (née Norah Doherty), born 1878 in Dublin, was a radical feminist, militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and fascist.

She emigrated to England with her family and by 1891 was living in London.

She married Charles Richard Dacre Fox in 1909.

She was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union and between May and July 1914 was imprisoned three times in Holloway Prison for 'acts of terrorism' and received a suffragette hunger strike medal.

In 1918 she stood as an independent candidate for election to Parliament but was not elected.