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Sylvia Pankhurst
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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Sylvia
Birth Name: Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
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, 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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
became involved in the WSPU after Keir Hardie
introduced her to the Pankhursts, including Sylvia
(Christabel's younger sister), and to Annie Kenney
, in February 1906. Kenney, at Hardie's urging, persuaded EPL
to become... |
| politics | Mary Gawthorpe | The legal status of this move was important. MG
and her mother did not enter the USA as immigrants (Mary as a known radical activist would not have been welcome there), but for a family... |
| politics | Christabel Pankhurst | When the police moved in, CP
spat on them, intentionally provoking them to arrest her. Four days later Kenney, once released, wrote to her sister acknowledging that her arrest had divided her family, for and... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
| Occupation | Susan Miles | The Robertses were succeeding a clergyman who also had liberal views. He had caused some offence by holding the funeral of Emily Davison
, the suffragist who was killed on the Derby racecourse. Miles, Susan. Portrait of a Parson. George Allen and Unwin. 56 |
| Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was apparently an unusually effective public speaker. Henry Nevinson
, her long-time lover and eventual husband, said she was driven to speech by a white-hot indignation that blazed in her words rather than in... |
| Literary responses | Mary Gawthorpe | She took it in good part when Teresa Billington
told her when one of her most headlong and disorganized speeches (given after taking a doctor's prescription for exhaustion) was pretty bad, Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 234 |
| Literary responses | Christabel Pankhurst | Nearly twenty years later Sylvia Pankhurst
accused this book of sensationalism and of preaching the sex war deprecated and denied by the older Suffragists. Purvis, June, and Maureen Wright. “Writing Suffragette History: the contending autobiographical narratives of the Pankhursts”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 405-33. 419 |
| Literary responses | Emmeline Pankhurst | June Purvis
traces the influence on EP
's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia
, estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Gawthorpe | The spur to writing this account came thirty years earlier, when MG
first felt herself enlightened, her understanding of events in general clarified, by Sylvia Pankhurst
's memoir The Suffragette Movement, 1931, and then... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Daniels | Meanwhile, five youngsters have climbed a tree intending to camp in it and protect it from developers, but Elliot, climbing down, falls and knocks himself out. Unconscious in hospital, he slips through a time-warp and... |
| Health | Emmeline Pankhurst | Christabel Pankhurst
moved her mother
to a nursing home in Hampstead; Sylvia
was not involved because of their political differences. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 175 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 185, 199 |
| Health | Mary Gawthorpe | Sylvia Pankhurst
later wrote that MG
was totally incapacitated for several months and an invalid for several years. Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 447-66. 450 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's friendship with Dora Marsden
ended in a breach. With Sylvia Pankhurst
, too, her relationship later came to grief, but this was after a particularly close period following the birth of Sylvia's son... |
| Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst
met Esther Roper
at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
(NESWS
). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB
immediately after this, and the... |
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