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
politics Virginia Woolf
On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Reception Ray Strachey
The book received scant but positive critical notice. The Bookman called it a work of unparalleled interest, written with balanced judgement
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
(1928 Christmas Supplement): 61
and The London Mercury praised RS as an admirable historian...
Textual Features Mary Stott
Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...
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:...
politics Ethel Sidgwick
The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour...
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...
Occupation Evelyn Sharp
ES was apparently an unusually effective public speaker. Henry Nevinson , her long-time lover and eventual husband, said she was driven to speech by a white-hot indignation that blazed in her words rather than in...
politics Olive Schreiner
OS did not support the use of violence. As a pacifist, she disapproved of Emmeline Pankhurst 's militant feminism. (She was a personal friend, however, of Sylvia Pankhurst .) She supported Gandhi 's satyagraha movement...
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...
politics Maude Royden
Through her anti-war activities, MR became involved with the Women's International League (WIL) , a pacifist organisation founded by British women who had attended the Women's International Congress in Amsterdam in 1915. Back in England...
politics Elizabeth Robins
While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union , and her...
politics Elizabeth Robins
Earlier that year ER had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst ' move toward a more radical militancy.
Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press.
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She nevertheless continued to support women's issues. In the early...
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.
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Winning, Joanne. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. University of Wisconsin Press.
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Timeline

1845: Victoria Park in East London was opened to...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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February 1936

The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

21 June 1936: The Stone Bomb or Anti-Air-War Memorial (showing...

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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...

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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.
Pankhurst, Sylvia, editor. Dreadnought. Athenæum Press.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Ethiopia: A Cultural History. Lalibela House, 1955.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Ex-Italian Somaliland. Watts, 1951.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. India and the Earthly Paradise. Sunshine Publishing House, 1926.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Is an International Language Possible?. Morland Press, 1927.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Let’s Look at Farming. Wayland, 1988.
Eminescu, Mihail. Poems of Mihail Eminescu. Translators Pankhurst, Sylvia and I. O. Stefanovici, Kegan Paul, 1930.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Save the Mothers. A. A. Knopf, 1930.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. “Sylvia Pankhurst”. Myself When Young, edited by Margot Asquith, 2ndnd ed, Frederick Muller, pp. 259-12.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Ethiopian People: Their Rights and Progress. Lalibela House, 1946.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Home Front: A Mirror to Life in England During the First World War. Hutchinson, 1932.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. T. W. Laurie, 1935.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals. Longmans, Green, 1931.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910. Gay and Hancock, 1911.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. Writ on Cold Slate. Dreadnought Publishers, 1922.