Biography
Anna Gvinter, printed as Anna Gwinter and by Irwin as Eleanor Gwinter, was born about 1891 and was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Her exact dates of birth and death are unresolved.
The sources disagree about which arrest her thirty-day sentence belongs to. The better-supported chronology has her arrested on September 13, 1917 and sentenced to thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse: she wrote from the workhouse on September 21, and an affidavit dated October 13 is consistent with release by then. Stevens’s appendix instead attaches the thirty days to the November 10 arrests, but Irwin’s November 10 list does not include her. This record follows the September chronology; original court records would be needed for certainty.
