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.

Connections

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politics Stella Benson
After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
politics Mona Caird
With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
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and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...
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...
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...
politics Charlotte Despard
The outbreak of the First World War added pacifism to CD 's political causes (although her brother, now Sir John French , was Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ), along with concern about how...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
During her time with the WSPU, MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst (who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford ), whom, like Ethel Snowden , she knew from...
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.
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, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
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It is remarkable how many reference reports of her illness fail to mention its source in...
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 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...
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...
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.
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and set...
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...
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...
politics Eva Gore-Booth
The congress was organized by a pacifist group that had split from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS ) over the issue of supporting the British war effort. Margaret Llewelyn Davies ,...
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).

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.