- "In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)—GlosBio
- "Ethel Smyth, a composer, critically acclaimed outside her native Britain, and Sarah Bennett [sic], who fought to improve the working conditions of the poor in the Staffordshire potteries, shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison as a result of their suffragette activities". (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).—GlosBio
- "The fight for women's voting rights is told through the writings of two turn-of-the-century British suffragettes - Ethel Smyth and Sarah Benett. Composer and writer Smyth comments on her libertarian life, and her promotion of women's rights through her highly praised opera, The Wreckers. Based on the 1910 window-breaking campaign launched by the Suffragette movement to further their cause, the opera is her most famous work. Also quoting from Benett's diaries, an actor provides a first-person account of the campaign and the hardships suffered by jailed Suffragettes, who were often beaten, raped, and subjected to psychological torture" ("World, Word For Word", VHS, 1997)—GlosBio
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