Palmer is listed alongside
Margaret Connery in the
Aberdeen Journal in November 1911 for taking part in the mass demonstration for women's suffrage which obstructed the areas around
Parliament Square,
Whitehall, and the Strand in
London. She was imprisoned in
Holloway for a week for her part in these protests. She was a close acquaintance of
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and organised an IWFL meeting at the
Phoenix Park with her which saw over 1000 women attend. They both addressed the crowd, outlining why they were willing to be imprisoned for the cause. Having refused to pay the fine for the damages, she was incarcerated at
Mountjoy Prison, where they received a number of privileges, but they chose to hunger strike in sympathy with suffragettes in Britain. Palmer was featured on the front cover of
The Irish Citizen on 22 June 1912, with Sheehy-Skeffington and the
Murphy sisters, under the headline "Prisoners for Liberty". She heckled both Mr Birrell at a meeting of the Law Students Debating Society and
Edward Carson at
Rathmines Town Hall. She was one of the organisers of the census boycott in Ireland, and lobbied Irish MPs on the second reading of the
Conciliation Bill on behalf of the IWFL. After her imprisonment in Tullamore Jail, Marguerite and her husband had two children, Joan (b. 1914, later Mrs George Freeman) and Roger (b. 1918). Marguerite remained a resident of Dublin for the rest of her life; she was widowed in March 1968 but her whereabouts following that remain unclear. == References ==