Woman who reformed Spanish prisons in London . Senorita Victoria Kent , the young Spanish woman who abolished flogging and introduced sweeping reforms in the prisons of Spain , has arrived in London to attend the Jubilee Congress of the Women ' s Co - operative Guild . She resigned from the post of Director of Prisons in the Spanish Republican Government because she thought she was not strong enough to carry on . Senorita Kent claims Kentish ancestry . Photo shows Senorita Victoria Kent in London with Mrs D D Naftel , a representative of the International Women ' s Co - operative Guild . Senorita Kent is in front . 20 June 1933