refused to tell her husband how much she earned. This put the authorities into a quandary as Elizabeth was not liable to pay tax and her husband said he was willing to pay the tax but he said that he had no idea how much to pay. In 1910 the authorities illegally seized some of Elizabeth's goods in an attempt to levy the tax on her income. The authorities then tried to claim the tax either from the Wilks or by her husband alone. This was legally unsatisfactory as Mark was being asked for tax on an income of about £600 per annum that he was nominally unaware of. Then 3,000 teachers signed a petition when Mark Wilks was placed in Brixton prison and there was a demonstration in Trafalgar Square to protest at his treatment. He was released after a fortnight to a celebrations from the supporters of the Women's Tax Resistance League which included George Bernard Shaw. When tax resistance members had to have some of their goods auctioned to affray their dues, small processions from the auction house and celebrations took place with other supporters, with public speeches from decorated carriages, to explain their protest. Despite a debate in the House of Lords where it was realised that the law was unfair, British law did not get amended until 1972. Membership Among the members or those who had to have their goods auctioned to pay overdue taxes, were as follows Janie Allan Sarah Benett Anne Cobden-Sanderson Alice Davies Charlotte Despard Dr. Margaret Dobson Louisa Matilda Fagan Mary Sargant Florence Katharine Gatty Cicely Hamilton Dr. Mabel Hardie Beatrice Harraden Kate Harvey Kate Haslam Isabella Eliza Harrison Dr. Katherine Heaney Amy Hicks or Bull Lilian Hicks Clemence Housman Edith How-Martyn Emily Juson Kerr Anna Martin Agnes Edith Metcalfe Dora Montefiore Anna Munro Dorinda Neligan Margaret Nevison Margaret Kineton Parkes Winifred Patch Louisa Thompson Price Ethel Ayres Purdie Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Flora Annie Steel Elizabeth Wilks Edith Zangwill and Stanton Coit (a member of "the men's branch"). Others included: Dr Garrett Anderson, the Misses Collier, the Misses Dawes Thompson, Mrs. Hartley, Mrs Merivale Mayer, Mrs. Milligan, Miss Raleigh, Mrs. Vaughan and Miss Green, Mrs Bormann Wells. Women's Tax Resistance in the United States The women's suffrage movement in the United States came to adopt some of the same techniques. Anna Howard Shaw said "I