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On 23 April 1909, Annie Kenney, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Constance Lytton and Clara Codd all planted trees in what the family called ‘Annie’s Arboretum.’. Emily Blathwayt wrote in her diary that ‘it was a beautiful day for tree planting’.
Annie was the first woman to plant a tree, a conifer, in the Eagle House plantation, on 22 April 1909. On the same day, Constance Lytton planted her tree. The plantation was named 'Annie's Arboretum' by the Blathwayt family who wrote her with updates of its progress.
Annie’s Arboretum is a plantation of trees planted by suffragettes who had undergone imprisonment to mark their sacrifice for the Votes for Women cause. It was located at Eagle House in Batheaston, the home of the Blathwayt family.
Ann "Annie" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie Baldock.
Key activists from the suffragette movement were invited to stay at her house and to plant a tree to celebrate a prison sentence, or to mark having been on hunger strike. The trees were known as "Annie's Arboreatum" after Kenney. There was also a "Pankhurst Pond" within the grounds.
Two other suffragettes with trees in the arboretum at Batheaston were Elsie Howie, the lead in the Paignton (Devon) WSPU who dressed as Joan of Arc for the large London March, and Annie Kenney, the most famous working-class Suffragette.
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Sep 13, 2019 · Annie Kenney was a well-known suffrage activist from Lancashire, usually described as the only working-class woman to achieve prominence in the organization. This article analyses how the WSPU initially made much of Annie Kenney’s social origins, attracting significant press attention.
