From Suffragette to Fascist: the Many Lives of Mary Sophia Allen
Mary Allen, a window-smashing suffragette became a pioneer policewoman, recruiting and training hundreds of women for Britain's first female police force.
Honoured for work policing muntiions factories and bombeed towns during WWI, she was soon infurating the establishment, travelling the world in her unauthorised uniform, to the acclaim of foreign leaders and the dismay of the british government.
Maruy's head was turned by a meeting with Hitler and she joined Mosley's British Union of Fascists, narrowly escaping internment, depsite suspiscionsof spying, secret flights to Germany and Nazi salutes.
The liaisons she formed with wealthy heiresses funded an extravagant lifestyle and the formation of a private army of women intended to save the country from Communist aerial attacks, nudity and white slavery.
