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Mary Jane Clarke: British suffragette.
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Mary Jane Clarke was a British suffragette. She died on Christmas Day 1910, two days after being released from prison, where she had been force-fed. She was described in her obituary by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence as the suffragettes' first martyr. She was the younger sister of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Where was Mary Jane Clarke born?
Mary Jane Clarke was born in Salford.
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