Theresa Garnett

Theresa Garnett (17 May 1888 – 24 May 1966) was a British suffragette. She was a serial protester who sometimes went by the name 'Annie O'Sullivan', daughter to Joshua Garnett and Frances Theresa Garnett who died when Theresa was 21 days old of "puerperal mania" (postpartum psychosis) in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum near Wakefield. and later worked for some time as a pupil-teacher.

Suffragette activity In 1907, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) after being inspired by a speech given by Adela Pankhurst. In April 1909, she sparked some interest by running about with a whistle before chaining herself, along with four other activists, including Bertha Quinn, Margery Humes and Sylvia Russell to one of the male dignitaries' statues in the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament, to protest against a law forbidding precisely this kind of thing – disorderly conduct within the Palace of Westminster when the Parliament was in session. They were not charged.

In June 1909, Garnett and Lillian Dove Willcox were arrested during another attempt to "rush" the House of Commons and convicted of assaulting a warder whilst in Holloway Prison, and were given another ten-day sentence.

The following week, on 14 November 1909, Arrested, she was sentenced to a month in prison at HM Prison Bristol for disturbing the peace (Churchill did not press charges for the assault itself). She went on a hunger strike, was force-fed, tried to set her cell on fire, and finished her time in hospital. For her actions she received from the WSPU a brooch for her imprisonment and the Hunger Strike Medal for "Valour" in the hunger strike. In 1910, she became organiser for the WSPU in Camberwell, but left the Union after some disagreement about the WPSU's arson campaign.

World War I During World War I, she worked as a sister at the Royal London Hospital and served on the Western Front with the Civil Hospital Reserve and was commended for her "gallant and distinguished service in the field"

Garnett became honorary editor for the Women's Freedom League bulletin in 1960. She enjoyed connecting with the Suffragette Fellowship.

Garnett died in 1966, leaving very little in her estate.