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.
During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from...
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
It is remarkable how many reference reports of her illness fail to mention its source in...
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
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...
Friends, Associates
Mary Gawthorpe
MG
's friendship with Dora Marsden
ended in a breach. With Sylvia Pankhurst
, too, her relationship later came to grief, but this was after a particularly close period following the birth of Sylvia's son...
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
and set...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
163
and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst
at the great WSPU...
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...
