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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. xii |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | William Morris | WM
's associates included George Bernard Shaw
, Annie Besant
, Emery Walker
, Vernon Lee
, as well as Emmeline
and Sylvia Pankhurst
. His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
ended in 1875, as... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
had five brothers and four sisters. The sister closest to her in age and most loyal to her, later Mary Clarke
, was also involved in the suffragette activism. Mary died at Pankhurst's home... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
gave birth to five children in all, four of them within five years. The two eldest, Christabel Harriette
(born in September 1880) and Estelle Sylvia
(born in May 1882), became, like their mother, high-profile... |
| 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... |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | Of the suffrage demonstrations that occurred in the following years, Sylvia Pankhurst
recalls that literally thousands of police on horse and foot were, time and again, turned out to repel a few hundred women, Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 66 |
| 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. 19 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | By 1913, EP
had moved to live with composer Ethel Smyth
at her cottage in Woking. The latter hints at a sexual relationship in her book Female Pipings in Eden and suggests that this... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
publicly announced that Sylvia Pankhurst
's East London Federation
would no longer be attached to the WSPU
. Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 1 - 17, 306. 315 |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
sought nomination as the Conservative
candidate for Whitechapel and St George's in the East End of London, a poor constituency, and a hard one for a Conservative candidate to win. Her move to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
in California re-opened correspondence with her sister Sylvia
, with whom she had been out of touch for forty years. Pankhurst, Richard Keir Pethick. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 467-9. 467 |
| 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... |
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