Sylvia Pankhurst

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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Sylvia
Birth Name: Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
SP , socialist feminist, was a prodigiously energetic writer, battling in print for most of the first half of the twentieth century for causes like the struggle for women's emancipation, the improvement of work and maternity conditions for poor women, and later for Ethiopian independence, in scores of letters, pamphlets, articles, and non-fiction monographs. She also produced a few poems, and translated poetry by others.
Black and white, half-length photograph of Sylvia Pankhurst, standing looking into the camera, holding a thin book. Her hair is centre-parted and loosely pulled back; she wear a long skirt and a top with long sleeves and embossed detail.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Violence Christabel Pankhurst
During the WSPU demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP 's sister Sylvia
Travel Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
To recuperate from her first prison term, EPL went to Italy, where Sylvia Pankhurst joined her. They travelled to Venice together.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
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Travel Christabel Pankhurst
An article in the New York Times headlined Why is Christabel Hiding? alleged that CP had travelled secretly to New York from Paris with her sister Sylvia .
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...
Textual Production Christabel Pankhurst
As children, CP and her sister Sylvia produced a newspaper, Home News, which covered political meetings and soirées at their home. On one occasion they wrote the refreshments were delicious, the strawberries and cream...
Textual Features Mary Stott
Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...
Residence Emmeline Pankhurst
She arranged for her sister Mary to work as a political organiser, and sent her son Harry as apprentice to a Glasgow builder. When she was in London during her travels, she often stayed with...
Reception Ray Strachey
The book received scant but positive critical notice. The Bookman called it a work of unparalleled interest, written with balanced judgement
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
(1928 Christmas Supplement): 61
and The London Mercury praised RS as an admirable historian...
Reception Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL 's involvement in the militant suffrage movement was necessarily controversial: contemporaries both lauded and reviled her. In her diary Virginia Woolf described EPL 's style of public speaking in 1918 with some disdain. I...
Publishing Christabel Pankhurst
Christabel wrote her account in the 1930s, after the appearance of Sylvia Pankhurst 's The Suffragette Movement, but resisted appeals to publish it. The manuscript got as far as the publisher's before she decided...
Publishing Constance Lytton
It had a purple cloth cover with a design by Sylvia Pankhurst in the WSPU colours of purple, white and green (similar to the cover of Prisons and Prisoners, 1914).
Publishing Constance Lytton
She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke.
Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv.
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It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL and Jane Warton...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
NC 's commitment to the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War gave her journalism a new prominence. She wrote for various papers and journals, especially for the Manchester Guardian, which printed everything she...
politics Mary Gawthorpe
These years of work and campaigning, in close continuity with her political work in Britain, were what MG felt to have been overlooked by Sylvia Pankhurst when the latter wrote that she emigrated to America...

Timeline

1845: Victoria Park in East London was opened to...

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1845

Victoria Park in East London was opened to the public as the first public park in Britain. (The more famous London parks belonged to the Crown.) Situated among the poor, working-class districts of the East...

1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...

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1866

The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.

23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...

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23 October 1906

During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament , eleven Women's Social and Political Union supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway .

11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...

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11 December 1906

Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison of suffragists arrested on 23 October.

27 June 1907: The Women's Franchise began weekly publication...

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27 June 1907

The Women's Franchise began weekly publication in London; it featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals.

February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...

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February 1936

The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

21 June 1936: The Stone Bomb or Anti-Air-War Memorial (showing...

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21 June 1936

The Stone Bomb or Anti-Air-War Memorial (showing an eighteen-inch bomb nose down in an object resembling Ordnance Survey markers) was officially unveiled at Woodford Green in Essex.

July 1945: Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour...

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July 1945

Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour member of the British Parliament , where she served for thirty-four years.

Texts

Pankhurst, Sylvia. British Policy in Eastern Ethiopia, the Ogaden and the Reserved Area. Lalibela House, 1945.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Delphos: The Future of International Language. Kegan Paul, 1927.
Pankhurst, Sylvia, editor. Dreadnought. Athenæum Press.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Ethiopia: A Cultural History. Lalibela House, 1955.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Ex-Italian Somaliland. Watts, 1951.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. India and the Earthly Paradise. Sunshine Publishing House, 1926.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Is an International Language Possible?. Morland Press, 1927.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Let’s Look at Farming. Wayland, 1988.
Eminescu, Mihail. Poems of Mihail Eminescu. Translators Pankhurst, Sylvia and I. O. Stefanovici, Kegan Paul, 1930.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Save the Mothers. A. A. Knopf, 1930.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. “Sylvia Pankhurst”. Myself When Young, edited by Margot Asquith, 2ndnd ed, Frederick Muller, pp. 259-12.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Ethiopian People: Their Rights and Progress. Lalibela House, 1946.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Home Front: A Mirror to Life in England During the First World War. Hutchinson, 1932.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. T. W. Laurie, 1935.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals. Longmans, Green, 1931.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910. Gay and Hancock, 1911.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Writ on Cold Slate. Dreadnought Publishers, 1922.