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lieutenant was awarded to her by the Victoria University of Manchester. Whilst at Altrincham, Cheshire, Robinson and Marsden developed a mutual interest in women"s suffrage. Both left the school after a dispute over wages to concentrate their attention on Women"s Social and Political Union activities, becoming paid regional representatives.
Both were imprisoned for a month after taking part in a deputation to see the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith in 1909.
Robinson was arrested for a second time with Marsden and fellow suffragette Mary Gawthorpe for disrupting the opening of laboratories by the Chancellor of the Victoria University of Manchester with questions about recent force-feeding tactics employed by the prison wardens holding hunger-striking suffragettes. The rough handling employed by the police reputedly moved the Chancellor to pressure the University into not pressing charges.