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Sylvia Pankhurst

The daughter of two great social reformers, Sylvia slipped easily into a career in human rights though she had started out as an artist. She campaigned, lectured, wrote and published throughout her life

Background

International Institute for Social History (A10-738)

Sylvia Pankhurst in 1915

ESTELLE SYLVIA PANKHURST (she later dropped her first forename) was born in Drayton Terrace, Old Trafford, Manchester on 5 May 1882.

Sylvia’s father was the barrister and legal reformer Dr Richard Pankhurst, and regular visitors to her childhood home included the designer and socialist William Morris and the founder of the Independent Labour Party, Keir Hardie M.P.

Sylvia was the second daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women’s Social & Political Union in 1903. Known as ‘suffragettes’, they were the most militant group to campaign to get women the vote.

Sylvia herself was an early force in the campaign for women’s right to vote. She was repeatedly imprisoned for her

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst was a tireless activist for a variety of radical causes, including women's suffrage, labour movements and international solidarity campaigns. She made pioneering contributions to gender and class politics, revolutionary communist politics and the struggles against imperialism, racism and fascism. In addition, Pankhurst founded and edited four newspapers, and wrote and published twenty-two books, and numerous pamphlets and articles.

In this biography, Mary Davis provides a much-needed reappraisal of a woman whose contribution to a wide variety of causes is too often marginalised or overlooked, whether as the employer of the first black journalist in Britain - the activist and writer Claude McKay - or as an early campaigner for pan-Africanism. Pankhurst's changing affiliations and commitments - from her early suffragette activities, though her involvement with disenfranchised and impoverished women in London's East End, to her passionate embrace of the Soviet revolution, the cause of communism worldwide and the fight against imperialism and fasc

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Sylvia Pankhurst

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