they weren't going to use physical force on her and that she had no family to threaten. This included a language strike in 1951, in which she refused to speak Hungarian but rather used all the other five languages she knew. Her protests worked as in 1952, they allowed her access to books. From these she learnt her seventh language, Greek. She put weeks-long effort into removing a very large nail from the iron-hard oak door of her cell. To accomplish this, she slowly removed single threads from towels and wove them into a solid rope with which to work the nail. After weeks of straining effort to get the nail to begin to wiggle and then loosen, she finally got the nail out. She then sharpened it on the concrete floor and used at as a drill to create a small peephole in her cell door so she could finally see out of her cell. She used these projects to keep her mind stimulated, to fill her time with goal-oriented actions, and to keep her sanity during her long period of extreme isolation. Bone was freed after 7 years, during the last days of the revolutionary Nagy Government in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. A student group had seized control of the Budapest political prison where Bone was held, and processed political prisoners for release. When she returned to Britain she gave interviews denouncing communism. This was due to the feeling of betrayal she felt from being imprisoned by her fellow communists and the Daily Worker which had sent her there. She died in 1975 in Richmond upon Thames, London. Publications See also Felicia Browne References Further reading Bone, Edith. Hét év magánzárka Budapest: 2007. 1889 births 1975 deaths Communist Party of Great Britain members Hungarian People's Republic British people imprisoned abroad Prisoners and detainees of Hungary Medical journalists Hungarian journalists Hungarian women journalists Hungarian translators Hungarian non-fiction writers British women journalists Communist women writers Hungarian women writers 20th-century journalists 20th-century translators