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Historical person
1866–1919
Alice Wheeldon was a British suffragist, socialist and anti-war activist. In 1917 she and members of her family were convicted of conspiring to murder Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson in a case built around an undercover informant and evidence that has remained controversial.
Wheeldon was a socialist, suffragist and opponent of the First World War who was arrested in 1917 with members of her family. She was convicted in a controversial conspiracy case involving an alleged plot against Prime Minister David Lloyd George and was released from prison the following year because of ill health.
In Pat Barker’s The Eye in the Door, His assignment brings him to Beattie Roper, a fictional counterpart of anti-war activist Alice Wheeldon, imprisoned after an alleged plot to poison Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Series
The Regeneration Trilogy follows soldiers, doctors, poets and civilians during the final two years of the First World War. Its central relationship is between the neurologist and army psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers and the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior, while Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and…
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