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Sylvia Pankhurst was a feminist, a socialist and a humanitarian. Driven by an all-embracing compassion and an acute sense of justice, she abandoned a successful artistic career to campaign for the rights of working women in London’s East End, and then more widely on behalf of the oppressed and disadvantaged wherever she found them.
16 apr 2020 · Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) was a daughter of Richard and Emmeline Pankhurst. Although often considered only as part of the ‘Pankhurst family’, Sylvia made a distinguished contribution not only to Votes for Women, but also to Internationalism, Anti-fascism and Anti-colonialism. Above all, she should be considered as one of the major ...
Christabel Pankhurst, ( Manchester, 22 settembre 1880 – Los Angeles, 13 febbraio 1958 ), figlia di Emmeline fu un' attivista e suffragetta britannica militante nel movimento per il suffragio femminile. Nel 1903 fu cofondatrice con la madre e la sorella minore Sylvia, della Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), che diresse anche durante l ...
Sylvia Pankhurst campaigned for votes for women, women’s rights, worker’s rights, peace, nursery education, maternity healthcare, anti-Fascism, anti-imperialism and Ethiopian independence. She took on both world problems and the plight of the individual.
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the ...
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, född 5 maj 1882 i Manchester, död 27 september 1960 i Addis Abeba i Etiopien, var en känd företrädare för suffragettrörelsen i Storbritannien. Hon grundade tillsammans med sin mor Emmeline Pankhurst och sin syster Christabel Pankhurst en rörelse för rösträtt åt kvinnor (ursprungligen i Storbritannien); Women's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ).
1 Throughout her life Sylvia Pankhurst was involved in a broad range of campaigns including the suffragette movement, the campaign against the First World War, the Communist movement, anti-fascism and support for the freedom of Ethiopia. One of the apparent contradictions in her shifts of emphasis took place in the course of the First World War ...
