Biography
Lillian Ascough was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Held at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia or the District of Columbia Jail, many of these prisoners joined hunger strikes and were force-fed.
Stevens identifies Mrs. W. D. Ascough as the former Connecticut NWP chair, trained for the concert stage in London and Paris. She lists a fifteen-day August 1918 Lafayette Square sentence and a five-day February 1919 watchfire sentence, plus Ascough’s Prison Special participation. The current undated generic case cannot be assigned to either episode without a stronger bridge, so these distinctions are preserved as narrative rather than duplicated rows.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 355.
