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19 mag 2016 · Although Adela (born 1885) is the least remembered of the Pankhurst sisters, in 1929 Dora Montefiore wrote that ‘I found her far and away the most intelligent of that family’. Adela was one of those who formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and when the WSPU changed tactics in 1905, Adela was given the task of disrupting ...
24 ago 2018 · Adela Pankhurst’s letter to the governor of Dundee Prison. Barry Godfrey. , CC BY-NC-ND As testament to the good treatment she and the Scottish suffragettes had received at the hands of the authorities, she wrote personally to the governor of Dundee Prison inviting him and his staff to a nearby meeting where her mother was scheduled to speak.
24 ago 2018 · Adela Pankhurst’s letter to the governor of Dundee Prison. Barry Godfrey. , CC BY-NC-ND As testament to the good treatment she and the Scottish suffragettes had received at the hands of the authorities, she wrote personally to the governor of Dundee Prison inviting him and his staff to a nearby meeting where her mother was scheduled to speak.
Adela Pankhurst’s life and work has had a mixed representation by her biographers and in accounts of her family. In this detailed study of her tours in Queensland, when her life story is viewed through both the lens of state histories and the international campaign against war as a means of solving conflict, her importance as a leading public intellectual emerges.
Adela Pankhurst was born in 1885, the third daughter of the famous English suffrage campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst and Richard Pankhurst, barrister-at-law. She followed her mother and sisters Christabel and Sylvia into the campaign for the suffrage, working as a paid organizer for the society they founded, the Women's Social and Political Union.
25 dic 2017 · In Australia Adela Pankhurst was well-known as a speaker against war and conscription, a member of the Victorian Socialist Party and a foundation member of the Communist Party of Australia. From that she moved to the Australian Women’s Guild of Empire, and from there to the far-right Australia First movement.
Adela Pankhurst was a feminist and pacifist whose political affiliations shifted from communism to strong anti-communism over her lifetime of activism. Born in England, the daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela was involved with the British suffrage movement from her teenage years and then the Women’s Social and Political Union which was founded by her mother and sisters in 1904.
