Christabel Pankhurst

The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie

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...

SP was born, the middle daughter in a famous family; her four siblings included Christabel , Adela , and two brothers who died relatively young.

SP was officially expelled from the WSPU for her socialist activities, an exclusion which she fought in various ways; this cemented her split from her mother and sister .

SP had an article about her suffrage campaign in the East End of London in the first issue of the journal The Suffragette, which her sister Christabel launched from Paris.

SP 's mother was the famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst . She was twenty years younger than her husband, and joined in his enthusiastic political campaigns before becoming involved in politics on her own. Sylvia always...

SP had a serious falling-out with her mother and her elder sister Christabel when they supported Britain's military efforts during the First World War. Her views on socialism and feminism, which diverged considerably from her...

Beginning in 1912, and inspired by Keir Hardie 's dedication to the poor, SP directed her political efforts at improving conditions for Cockney or working women in London's East End; this commitment puzzled her...

This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP felt uneasy about the WSPU leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...

The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...

EP 's husband, Richard Pankhurst , died suddenly from perforated stomach ulcers while she and her daughter Christabel were visiting Geneva.

Emmeline's biographer June Purvis feels that Sylvia, while trying to be impartial, had developed too wide an ideological distance from her mother (and had been too much hurt by her rejection) to achieve fairness. The...

Christabel Pankhurst moved her mother to a nursing home in Hampstead; Sylvia was not involved because of their political differences.

A permanent, visible memorial to SP has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline and Christabel have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons ; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist...

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...