Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Publishing
Constance Lytton
It had a purple cloth cover with a design by Sylvia Pankhurst
in the WSPU
colours of purple, white and green (similar to the cover of Prisons and Prisoners, 1914).
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
It appeared with two authors' names, like a collaboration between CL
and Jane Warton...
Publishing
Nancy Cunard
NC
's commitment to the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War gave her journalism a new prominence. She wrote for various papers and journals, especially for the Manchester Guardian, which printed everything she...
Reception
Ray Strachey
The book received scant but positive critical notice. The Bookman called it a work of unparalleled interest, written with balanced judgement
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
(1928 Christmas Supplement): 61
and The London Mercury praised RS
as an admirable historian...
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...
Residence
Emmeline Pankhurst
She arranged for her sister Mary to work as a political organiser, and sent her son Harry as apprentice to a Glasgow builder. When she was in London during her travels, she often stayed with...
Textual Features
Mary Stott
Here MS
writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...
Textual Production
Michelene Wandor
Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner
and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...
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...
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
Travel
Christabel Pankhurst
An article in the New York Times headlined Why is Christabel Hiding? alleged that CP
had travelled secretly to New York from Paris with her sister Sylvia
.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
19
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
