Possible Clues:

• First coming down close to bottom, smack proved painful for political activist, d. '28
• Emmeline --, Suffragette leader
• Protestant female new, replacing prison's first head of religion
• Corporal punishment was painful: Society almost moved to back rights campaigner
• Surname of Suffragette leader who had daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela
• Stir on island where Resistance turns to new campaigner
• Emmeline -, noted British suffragette