Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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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 “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”.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
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, 1987.
18
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
40
Family and Intimate relationships
Christabel Pankhurst
CP
's relations with Sylvia
, the sibling closest to herself in age, were always marked by rivalry and conflict. A third sister, Adela
, eventually settled in Australia to become a leading figure in...
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...
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
43, 50-1
Winning, Joanne. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
23
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sylvia Pankhurst
enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, and G. B. Shaw
also visited. The school hosted annual...
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 (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.
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
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
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
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.
