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Mary Jane Clarke (née Goulden; 1862– 1910), was a British suffragette. She died on Christmas Day 1910 two days after being released from prison where she had been force fed. She was described in her obituary by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence as the suffragette's "first woman martyr". She was the younger sister of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.