{"value"=>"<p>Kitty Marion's writings consist of autobiographical entries and personal testimonies on protests in which she participated, her treatment in British and American jails, and accounts of the abuses of female actresses in the British theater. A small amount of information is present regarding organizations with which she was affiliated.</p> <p>The bulk of this series is comprised of Marion's memoirs, heavily annotated by hand. The materials cover her life from early childhood through her involvement with the American birth control movement in the 1930s. In them she discusses her family, life as a German immigrant in England, experiences as an actress in the theater, the means through which she became involved with the Suffragettes, her various imprisonments and excruciating force-feedings, and her career as a newspaper woman selling the <span class=\"title\">Birth Control Review</span> in New York City. The manuscript of the memoirs is present in both English and German language drafts.</p> <p>Other statements by Marion include a 1908 signed account of manipulative tricks often used by theater managers, a copy of a letter Marion addressed to newspapers on the subject of women in the theater, a personal statement about her imprisonment in the Newcastle Prison in 1909, and an undated speech given by Marion in defense to her arrest for destruction of government property in Newcastle.</p> <p>The series is concluded by a 1930 draft report written by Miss Marion for the Birth Control International Information Centre, and a list of organizations with which she was active or to which she had made financial contributions.</p>"}