1. The Seventh.
2. She survived, for a few days, and a lynch mob came to the hospital.
3. In the Landwehr Canal.
4. Next to the Haymarket martyrs.
5. Arguably, an attention-seeking parasuicide gone wrong.
6. "Honey, I've had two bad ones. The third one will either be a charm or it'll kill me."
7. She left everything to Martin Luther King.
8. Buried Alive In The Blues.
9. Two years after Franco.
10. With Phyllis by her side.

3 - Rosa Luxemburg

Jah.

:applaud:

8 Janis Joplin?

Yus.

:applaud:

2 - Bessie Smith

No, DP. This one is a bit of English social history.
Most of us were taught it at school, but not the whole story...

That's all right: Edward Albee has always been accused of dramatic license and anyway the story is that Bessie was turned away w/o treatment. I can't pass a quiz w/o shoving an answer at it :o

2. emily pankhurst

Hmmm...
In the right field, Graeme.
[This is the British education system for you, DP. Hopeless...]

you'll be pleased to hear we've lost none of our snobbery though

:lol: :lol: :lol:

5 is emily pankhurst.
The one that chucked herself under the horses in front of the king.

6 is Patsy Cline talking about her accident experiences.
is 9 Dali?

GFR:
6. Si.
9. Non. Good try, though.


TwinZ.
5 Is not Emily Pankhurst. She lived 'til she was 70 or something. EMIILY PANKHURST DID NOT THROW HERSELF IN FRONT OF A HORSE! Ok? Do you see what I mean, DuckPin? Jeez!

x

is 5, marilyn monroe - just a guess, i don't even know what a parasuicide is.

Parasuicide is when someone didn't want to to die, just wanted the attention.

x

oh...no idea then.

is 2 Emily Wilding Davison?

Yes. I take back all I said.
Didn't actually die after throwing herself under the king's horse.
But an angry mob did come to the hospital to finish her off.
Some people. Eh?

x


5 She was a poet, and may have known it...

Sylvia Plath

Twas her.

:applaud:

Is 9 La Passionaria (or something v.similar) - sorry, don't know her real name.

lucky guess

any more hints?

What about Picasso for 9 then?

At last.
Dolores Ibarruri.

:applaud: :applaud:

4 dead ladies left...

1. The Seventh.
4. Next to the Haymarket martyrs.
7. She left everything to Martin Luther King.
10. With Phyllis by her side.

Why is she buried in Heptonstall?

No idea. Anyone?
x

Other members of Ted Hughes' family are buried there (same graveyard), I think.
The bastard!

:D

We've done attention-seeking Sylvia.
Next!

1, 4 and 7 are real shin-kickers. 10 is quite recent.
Come on!

I didn't want to clutter the thread as per, but was 10 a lez?
Dorothy Parker left everything to MLK.
Dunno the other two, sorry....

Yes. She was. Died last week.
And, yes, twas Dorothy.

:applaud:

Del Martin?

Yay, I love Dorothy Parker. My fave poem:

Résumé -

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

:D

Oh, I simply can't go on.... :cry2:
x

Ah, very good.
Who was actually called Dorothy. Small world...

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.

:lol:

What a gem. :applaud:

4. A guess at Mother Jones, a co-founder of the IWW (or Wobblies). The Haymarket Martyrs were something to do with early US Trade Unions.

Good call, but no...

After further research, I'd have another guess at Emma Goldman, a Chicago anarchist, buried next to the Haymarket Martyrs memorial.

Yus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQDqLpeNZJg
How cool was she?
Pedantry corner; she lived in New York when they didn't expel her, round the corner from Claudia Gonson's house. Kropotkin lived round the corner from me. I wonder if anyone else has any anarchists of note residing - historically - nearby...

One left - think numerically - obviously.