Surveillance Image of the Suffragette Prisoner Maud Brindley

Surveillance image of the suffragette prisoner Maud Brindley. The image was taken by an undercover photographer commissioned by the Home Office to take photographs of the most 'dangerous' Suffragettes as they exercised in the yard of Holloway prison. It was most likely to have been taken when Maud, a married Suffragette was serving a 5 month sentence in the 2nd Division for causing damage to property owned by T Lloyd and Company in 1913.

Scotland Yard undertook covert photography of militant suffragettes from 1913. The images were used to identify suffragettes attempting to enter public buildings such as shops, museums and art galleries, where they might attempt to cause damage to property.