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 Henry Handel Richardson
HHR began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union ) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
ER wrote regularly and candidly to the heads of the All-India Women's Conference and Women's Indian Association , as well as to nationalist Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur and suffragist Radhabai Subbarayan , among others. Rathbone...
Travel Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
To recuperate from her first prison term, EPL went to Italy, where Sylvia Pankhurst joined her. They travelled to Venice together.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
172
Reception Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL 's involvement in the militant suffrage movement was necessarily controversial: contemporaries both lauded and reviled her. In her diary Virginia Woolf described EPL 's style of public speaking in 1918 with some disdain. I...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL became involved in the WSPU after Keir Hardie introduced her to the Pankhursts, including Sylvia (Christabel's younger sister), and to Annie Kenney , in February 1906. Kenney, at Hardie's urging, persuaded EPL to become...
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...
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.
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, 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...

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