I think that as a result of being abused in her earlier years disliked/hated  male dominance, became a fanatic suffragette and turned into a violent arsonist.

That she also got involved with planting explosive devices on trains and busses would at that time be considered as extreme violence but is now  classified as terrorism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44210012


What is your view?

Dirk

The suffragettes at the time said that they always targetted property rather than persons, and so they bombed or set fire only to unoccupied country houses, cricket pavillions, disused churches, buildings under construction, railway yards, letter boxes etc, deliberately to avoid any loss of life and all the extreme negative publicity that would have generated. But given the wide-ranging scope of their arsonist activities and their often somewhat amateurish albeit enthusiastic approach to violence, it is a wonder that no-one was actually killed by accident.

The extreme militancy of some of the suffragettes probably actually set back the cause of women's suffrage, so just think what the backlash would have been had, say, an innocent night watchman been killed. By 1914 for some suffragettes I suspect the cause was no longer just about securing women's rights but had almost become a 'holy war' against the Liberal party and accordingly, despite the increasingly negative publicity and the loss of popular support, the violence continued to escalate. Kitty Marion seems to have been one of the more militant suffragettes and so perhaps, for whatever reason, she had lost sight of the political goals of the original movement in favour of the struggle in itself, and her raison d'être had become focussed on the means rather than the end. Lloyd George (he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, so not P.M. nor Home Secretary) was the target of particular ire because, although generally sympathetic to women's suffrage, he was thought to be betraying them through his inaction, and so while he was a potentially a useful political ally of the cause, he was particularly singled out for a bomb attack on his property, much to the dismay of some of the less militant and perhaps more polically astute suffragettes.