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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”.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, Vol. 14 , 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. 18 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | |
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... |
Violence | 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... |
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 |
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... |
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