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.
Black and white, half-length photograph of Sylvia Pankhurst, standing looking into the camera, holding a thin book. Her hair is centre-parted and loosely pulled back; she wear a long skirt and a top with long sleeves and embossed detail.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Constance Lytton
She wrote this book slowly and laboriously with her left hand, her right hand having been disabled by a stroke.
Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv.
xii
It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL and Jane Warton...
Occupation Susan Miles
The Robertses were succeeding a clergyman who also had liberal views. He had caused some offence by holding the funeral of Emily Davison , the suffragist who was killed on the Derby racecourse.
Miles, Susan. Portrait of a Parson. George Allen and Unwin.
56
Here...
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...
Violence Christabel Pankhurst
During the WSPU demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP 's sister Sylvia
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
In the later twentieth century it was dismissed by a...
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...
Residence Emmeline Pankhurst
She arranged for her sister Mary to work as a political organiser, and sent her son Harry as apprentice to a Glasgow builder. When she was in London during her travels, she often stayed with...
politics Emmeline Pankhurst
Of the suffrage demonstrations that occurred in the following years, Sylvia Pankhurst recalls that literally thousands of police on horse and foot were, time and again, turned out to repel a few hundred women,
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint.
66
Travel Christabel Pankhurst
An article in the New York Times headlined Why is Christabel Hiding? alleged that CP had travelled secretly to New York from Paris with her sister Sylvia .
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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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...

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