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| The [[Museum of London]] has an image of Craggs on a horsedrawn carriage for distributing the ''[[Votes for Women (newspaper)|Votes for Women]]'' newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritage-images.com/preview/1192433|title=A 'press cart' outside the Woman's Press, Charing Cross Road, London, July 1911. Artist: Unknown # 1192433 – Heritage Images|website=heritage-images.com|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> | The [[Museum of London]] has an image of Craggs on a horsedrawn carriage for distributing the ''[[Votes for Women (newspaper)|Votes for Women]]'' newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritage-images.com/preview/1192433|title=A 'press cart' outside the Woman's Press, Charing Cross Road, London, July 1911. Artist: Unknown # 1192433 – Heritage Images|website=heritage-images.com|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> |
| Craggs was close to [[Emmeline Pankhurst]]'s son Harry, who suffered from polio, and visited his nursing home throughout and was with him when he died in January 1910.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" /> Craggs became organiser, after [[Grace Roe]], at [[Brixton]] WSPU branch, and later at Hampstead.<ref name=":0" /> Within the movement, Craggs befriended [[Ethel Smyth]], [[Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)|Evelyn Sharp]] and [[Beatrice Harraden]].<ref name=":0" /> Craggs also spent time with Marie Newby in [[Devon]] influencing the campaign there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/newby-mrs-marie-du-sautoy/|title=Newby, Mrs Marie du Sautoy|website=Devon History Society|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> Craggs was also in [[Wales]] and identified as the protester who jumped out at the Home Secretary at [[Llandaff Cathedral]]<ref name=":3" /> during a Royal Visit at [[Cathays Park]] saying 'it was a shame he was going about the country while suffragettes where starving in prison'<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cuarm/royal-visit-and-suffragette/|title=A story from the archive: A Royal Visit and the Suffragette|last=Dray|first=Judith|date=19 August 2015|publisher=Cardiff University|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> | Craggs was close to [[Emmeline Pankhurst]]'s son Harry, who suffered from polio, and visited his nursing home throughout and was with him when he died in January 1910.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" /> Craggs became organiser, after [[Grace Roe]], at [[Brixton]] WSPU branch, and later at [[Hampstead]].<ref name=":0" /> Within the movement, Craggs befriended [[Ethel Smyth]], [[Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)|Evelyn Sharp]] and [[Beatrice Harraden]].<ref name=":0" /> Craggs also spent time with Marie Newby in [[Devon]] influencing the campaign there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/newby-mrs-marie-du-sautoy/|title=Newby, Mrs Marie du Sautoy|website=Devon History Society|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> Craggs was also in [[Wales]] and identified as the protester who jumped out at the Home Secretary at [[Llandaff Cathedral]]<ref name=":3" /> during a Royal Visit at [[Cathays Park]] saying 'it was a shame he was going about the country while suffragettes where starving in prison'<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cuarm/royal-visit-and-suffragette/|title=A story from the archive: A Royal Visit and the Suffragette|last=Dray|first=Judith|date=19 August 2015|publisher=Cardiff University|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> |
| In November 1910, Craggs went to the Paragon Theatre, [[Whitechapel]] at 2a.m. to hide in the freezing roofspace overnight before [[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George]] was due to speak. Craggs broke through the crowd from her hideout shouting at the Chancellor about women's rights, and was thrown brutally down a stone staircase. A bystanding man who said 'women pay taxes too' was beaten.<ref name=":3" /> | In November 1910, Craggs went to the Paragon Theatre, [[Whitechapel]] at 2a.m. to hide in the freezing roofspace overnight before [[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George]] was due to speak. Craggs broke through the crowd from her hideout shouting at the Chancellor about women's rights, and was thrown brutally down a stone staircase. A bystanding man who said 'women pay taxes too' was beaten.<ref name=":3" /> |
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