Lettice Floyd
Lettice Annie Floyd (21 November 1865 – 1934) was a British suffragette. She is especially known for her openly lesbian relationship with fellow suffragette Annie Williams. During the suffragette campaign, Floyd and Williams were arrested and force-fed. After World War I, Floyd continued to campaign for women's rights and peace. Life Floyd was born in Berkswell in 1865, to William and Alison Floyd. Her mother's sister was the philosopher Jane Hume Clapperton, who had published Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness in 1885. Their father was a farmer and, when he died in 1879, he left £3000 each to his two daughters. Floyd became bored by not needing to work and, in 1888, she took work in a children's hospital, but was dispirited to realise that the symptoms she was treating were caused by larger problems, including poverty and poor housing. She and her sister felt strongly enough about women's suffrage that they set up a Berkswell outpost of the Birmingham Women's Suffrage Society in 1907. However, by the following year, they had both lost patience with the conventional means of lobbying on the issue and joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which was a militant group