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 ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
's mother was the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst
. CP
enjoyed a very close relationship with her mother, which had the effect of excluding her next sister, Sylvia
. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 18 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | |
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... |
Violence | Christabel Pankhurst | |
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... |
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