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
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...
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, 1969.
175
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
185, 199
Health Mary Gawthorpe
Sylvia Pankhurst later wrote that MG was totally incapacitated for several months and an invalid for several years.
qtd. in
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Womens History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
450
It is remarkable how many reference reports of her illness fail to mention its source in...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Daniels
Meanwhile, five youngsters have climbed a tree intending to camp in it and protect it from developers, but Elliot, climbing down, falls and knocks himself out. Unconscious in hospital, he slips through a time-warp and...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Gawthorpe
The spur to writing this account came thirty years earlier, when MG first felt herself enlightened, her understanding of events in general clarified, by Sylvia Pankhurst 's memoir The Suffragette Movement, 1931, and then...
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.
qtd. in
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...
Literary responses Emmeline Pankhurst
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...
Literary responses Mary Gawthorpe
She took it in good part when Teresa Billington told her when one of her most headlong and disorganized speeches (given after taking a doctor's prescription for exhaustion) was pretty bad,
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
234
and set...
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...
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, 1955.
56
Here...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst , arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while...
politics Christabel Pankhurst
When the police moved in, CP spat on them, intentionally provoking them to arrest her. Four days later Kenney, once released, wrote to her sister acknowledging that her arrest had divided her family, for and...
politics Stella Benson
After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
politics Mona Caird
With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
163
and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...
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...

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