Queer Places:
(March 1906) 45 Park Walk, Chelsea (Sylvia Pankhurst's address)
(1907) Neville House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol
(1909) Downe House, Clifton, Bristol
(1910) 23 Gordon Road, Clifton, Bristol
(1910) 16 Arlington Villas, Clifton
(1912) 60 Clovelly Mansions, Grays Inn Road, London WC
(1913) 19 Mecklenburgh Square, London WC
(1953) 1 Camper's Road, Letchworth, Hertfordshire
Eagle House, Batheaston, Bath BA1 7EH, Regno Unito

Annie Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was the first woman Imprisoned for the cause of women’s suffrage in 1905. Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women and men's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.

She was an English working-class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie Baldock.[1] Kenney attracted the attention of the press and public in 1905 when she and Christabel Pankhurst were imprisoned for several days for assault and obstruction, after heckling Sir Edward Grey at a Liberal rally in Manchester on the issue of votes for women. The incident is credited with inaugurating a new phase in the struggle for women's suffrage in the UK, with the adoption of militant tactics.

Christabel Pankhurst and Kenney were allegedly lovers. Mary Blathwayt noted in her diary Kenney's several female sleeping partners when she stayed at the Blathwayt's home, Eagle House. Blathwayt's jealousy has been proposed as the reason.[14]

In 1911 I.A.R. Wylie struck up a relationship with the editor of "The Suffragette", Rachel Barrett, and by mid 1913 was a useful "sub-editor and bottle-washer". She travelled with Annie Kenney, Jessie Kenney and Mary Richardson to spend a week in France with Christabel Pankhurst[3]. In 1917, Barrett and Wylie traveled to America.

Kenney married James Taylor (1893-1977) and settled in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, after women over 30 won the vote in 1918. A son, Warwick Kenney Taylor, was born in 1921. She died of diabetes at the Lister Hospital in Hitchin on 9 July 1953 aged 73. Her funeral was conducted according to the rites of the Rosicrucians and her ashes were scattered by her family on Saddleworth Moor.[15]


Flora Drummond with Christabel Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, (unknown), Emmeline Pankhurst, Charlotte Despard and (unknown), 1906–1907

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