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
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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... |
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, 1987, pp. 1 - 17, 306. 315 |
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 “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”.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, 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 | |
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... |
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, 1977. 43, 50-1 Winning, Joanne. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 23 |
Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst
met Esther Roper
at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
(NESWS
). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB
immediately after this, and the... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | George Bernard Shaw | He was an important figure in the lives and careers of almost innumerable women writers: a good friend of Annie Besant
, Sylvia Pankhurst
, Elizabeth Robins
, and Christopher St John
, a romantic... |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Smyth | During her work with the Women's Social and Political Union
, ES
became devoted to Emmeline Pankhurst
, co-founder of the WSPU
. Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter Sylvia
paints ES
's devotion in rather unflattering terms:... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | 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... |
Timeline
1845
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.
23 October 1906
During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament
, eleven Women's Social and Political Union
supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway
.
11 December 1906
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison
of suffragists arrested on 23 October.
27 June 1907
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 of political theorist Harold Laski
, publisher Victor Gollancz
, and writer and Labour MP John Strachey
established the Left Book Club (LBC)
.
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
21 June 1936
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.