Gladys Evans

  Noted events in her life were:

• Fact 1. Her sisters, dragooned into marching, slipped away as the suffragette band started the suffragette song. She was imprisoned in Dublin Gaol (Mountjoy) for trying to set fire to a Theatre. This was in July 1912. She got out of prison on October 3rd 1912. While in prison she was on a hunger strike and was force fed for nine weeks. Gladys changed her last name to Bently after her stint in jail.
She could have married Hugh O'Connor, her lawyer, when he was on leave. It seems he was her lawyer in Dublin. He was killed in the war. Two suffragette women left her money. The organization sent her to Berne, Switzerland to recuperate from kidney damage caused by the forcible feeding.
She drove a supply truck in WW I and then went as a chauffeur to a relief mission ( funded by American women) in Blerancourt Chateau, Aisne France. This is near the Belgian Border. Anne Morgan ( Pierpont's daughter) paid for her to come to New York and take a Frances Fox beautician's course. She came to Winnipeg and lived with Nora and Frank. Eventually she sold "Bookhouse" (this is a set of 8 books for children). This venture was not successful. In Montreal she worked as a housekeeper for Sir Hugh Allan and also for Sir Arthur Meighan. She then moved to New York where she worked as a housekeeper at a home on Long Island.

• Fact 2. In her sixties she developed what would now be called Alzheimers. She could not come back to the Skinners in Montreal because she was in the US illegally and "my father got her a railway pass to Los Angeles where
Ethel lived and eventually the "Little Sisters of the Poor" looked after her." (per Joan).
She worked at Selfridge's in London for 3 years. She emigrated to Canada in 1911 but returned to England in March of 1912 on learning of the trial of Mrs. Pankhurst and the Lawrences.