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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | In January 1914, CP
called Sylvia
to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation
should break its ties to the WSPU
. Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL
explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes
never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and... |
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 | 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... |
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. 172 |
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... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
wrote regularly and candidly to the heads of the All-India Women's Conference
and Women's Indian Association
, as well as to nationalist Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
and suffragist Radhabai Subbarayan
, among others. Rathbone... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | DR
began a close friendship with Veronica Leslie-Jones
, a militant suffragette and friend of the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst
; this introduction was the most significant result for her of participating in the Arachne Club
. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 43, 50-1 Winning, Joanne. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. University of Wisconsin Press. 23 |
politics | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union
) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest... |
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