Biography
Lucy Burns was Alice Paul's closest collaborator in the National Woman's Party; suffragist who served the most prison time of any American woman in the campaign. Vassar 1902; born in Brooklyn to an Irish Catholic family. On the November 14, 1917 "Night of Terror" she was beaten at Occoquan and chained by her wrists to her cell bars overnight; later force-fed via nasal tube by five guards. After ratification she retired to Brooklyn.
Stevens distinguishes the September 1917 sixty-day sentence and November 10, 1917 six-month sentence from three January 1919 watchfire stays that Burns actually served: three, five and five days. The three January terms total thirteen documented days, with no exact endpoints supplied. Her existing July 1917 case is preserved despite this appendix describing an earlier three-day episode as June; no fourth early short stay is invented. Four English prison terms are outside this US case expansion.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 356.
