Mabel Jones

Trained in London and from 1898, she worked in a practice with her fellow student, Dr Helen Boyle in Brighton after moving from Hull{{Cite book|title=Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives|last=Liddington|first=Jill|publisher=Virago|year=2006}} and then moved on to Glasgow in 1908. Although Dr Jones initially handled the routine cases in Hove, Brighton, the clinic was focused in treating women and it was mostly female led.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thekeep.info/international-womens-day-brightons-pioneering-female-doctors/|title=International Women's Day: Brighton's pioneering female doctors - The Keep|date=2015-03-09|work=The Keep|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en-US}}

Jones was also noted for helping others who were sympathetic to the cause.

"Dr. Mabel Jones did very well in helping the boys to get over their little colds and fevers. ... illustrate how genuine a feminist Paschal had become between two ardent suffragists, his wife and mother, he too called on Dr. Mabel Jones' services"{{Cite book|title=Shining Cycles of Love|url=https://archive.org/details/shiningcyclesofl00dart|last=Dart|first=Anna Coggins|publisher=Wayside Press|year=1959|location=University of California|pages=[https://archive.org/details/shiningcyclesofl00dart/page/16 16]}}

It is reported that Jones either worked in Belgium or attended Belgian wounded in Scotland during World War I {{Cite journal|title=Medical Women at War 1914-1918|journal=Medical History|volume=38|issue=2|pages=160–177|pmc = 1036842|year = 1994|last1 = Leneman|first1 = L|pmid=8007751|doi=10.1017/s0025727300059081}} and was awarded the Queen Elisabeth Medal {{Citation needed|date=August 2018}} and this was sent on her sudden death to her medical colleague Dr Helen Boyle of Brighton{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenofbrighton.co.uk/helen-boyle.html|title=Helen Boyle - mastersport.co.uk|website=www.womenofbrighton.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08}}

Jones evaluated the health state of suffragette Frances Gordon after she was released from Perth prison. A part of the report she produced was quoted in a letter to the Glasgow Evening Times:{{Cite book|title=The Scottish suffragettes and the press|last=Sarah|first=Pedersen|isbn=9781137538345|location=London, United Kingdom|oclc=992988822|date=2017-07-03}}

"I saw her (Miss Gordon) at Midnight in July 3. Her appearance was appalling, like a famine victim: the skin brown, her face bones standing out, her eyes half shut, her voice a whisper, her hands quite cold, her pulse a thread."{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8A0rDwAAQBAJ&q=%22mabel+jones%22+suffrage&pg=PA152|title=The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press|last=Pedersen|first=Sarah|date=2017-07-03|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137538345|language=en}}

"Comparing the [prison] medical officer's daily reports with Frances Gordon's story as related by Mabel Jones, it is clear that the later did indeed contained a good deal of distortion, but a far greater distortion was the version of the events provided by the medical officer and Chairman of the Prison Commission to the Scottish Office"{{Cite book |last=Leneman |first=Leah |author-link=Elizabeth Crawford (historian) |title=Martyrs in our mydst. Dundee, Perth and the forcible feeding of suffragettes. |publisher=The Abertay Historical Society |year=1993 |location=Dundee |pages=30}}

It is uncertain if Jones went to London to meet the Pankhursts to protest that Janie Allan was removed from the West of Scotland branch of the WSPU.{{Cite book |last=Crawford |first=Elizabeth |author-link=Elizabeth Crawford (historian) |title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928 |date=2003-09-02 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1135434021}} The Women's Library Archive has a printed leaflet of a visit by Dr Jones to Mrs Pankhurst in a cell at the Central Police Station.{{Cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/dat/gb106-7kgg/7kgg/3/22|title=The Treatment of Mrs Pankhurst: Dr Mabel Jones's statement|date=11 Mar 1914|website=Women's Library Archive; Katie Gliddon Papers|access-date=23 August 2018}} She did also co-examine the gynaecological damage done by the violent use of rectal feeding on Fanny Parker and reported in the WSPU newsletters about other cases.{{Cite book|title=Becoming 'medical women': British Female Physicians and the Politics of Professionalism|last=Michaelsen|first=Kaaren Leigh|publisher=University of California|year=2003|location=Berkeley|pages=217}}

Jones died in 1923 after falling from a train in Northampton, England.

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