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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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... |
Health | Mary Gawthorpe | Sylvia Pankhurst
later wrote that MG
was totally incapacitated for several months and an invalid for several years. Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 447-66. 450 |
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 |
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 | 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. 234 |
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 |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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... |
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. 163 |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
sought nomination as the Conservative
candidate for Whitechapel and St George's in the East End of London, a poor constituency, and a hard one for a Conservative candidate to win. Her move to... |
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