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 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.
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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...
politics Charlotte Despard
The outbreak of the First World War added pacifism to CD 's political causes (although her brother, now Sir John French , was Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ), along with concern about how...
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 Eva Gore-Booth
The congress was organized by a pacifist group that had split from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS ) over the issue of supporting the British war effort. Margaret Llewelyn Davies ,...
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, 1969.
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politics Mary Gawthorpe
The legal status of this move was important. MG and her mother did not enter the USA as immigrants (Mary as a known radical activist would not have been welcome there), but for a family...
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 Mary Gawthorpe
These years of work and campaigning, in close continuity with her political work in Britain, were what MG felt to have been overlooked by Sylvia Pankhurst when the latter wrote that she emigrated to America...
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 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...
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, 1994.
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She nevertheless continued to support women's issues. In the early...
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...

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