While established within the creative industries as a visual tool for representation, illustration practice is here positioned as a dynamic communication discipline, able to engage audiences within immersive narratives bringing feeling, empathy, and emotion to the representation of lived experience. The discussion is framed around a practice-based enquiry of the prison writings of the Croydon suffragette Katie Gliddon whereby narrative illustration practice, both written and visual, are used to examine and describe a web of interwoven stories across time. Here ‘illustration’ provides the tool with which the enquiry is made; a holistic process in which a series of strategic research methods are used to conduct and represent an investigation. The chapter asserts the kinships between feminist methods, specifically the writings by Maria Tamboukou, scholar in Gender and Feminist Studies, and what are broadly recognised by the author as illustrative non-representational principles and strategies.