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Adela Constantia Mary Walsh (née Pankhurst; 19 June 1885 – 23 May 1961) was a British born suffragette who worked as a political organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Scotland.
Adela Constantia Pankhurst Walsh (Manchester, 19 giugno 1885 – Sydney, 23 maggio 1961) è stata un'attivista, femminista e suffraggetta britannica naturalizzata australiana. Fu parte del movimento per il suffragio femminile britannico e tra i fondatori del Partito Comunista d'Australia .
24 ago 2018 · Yet despite being named alongside 58 others on a statue of Millicent Fawcett recently unveiled in London, Adela Pankhurst has been largely ignored by popular histories of suffrage.
24 ago 2018 · Her sisters and mother have become synonymous with the movement that won votes for women, and the Pankhurst family are rightly celebrated for their leading role in women’s suffrage, but Adela has all but disappeared from history.
Adela Pankhurst was the only member of the Pankhurst family to work as a paid organiser for the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and was involved in the earliest acts of militancy...
The daughter of British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela had arrived in Melbourne in March 1914. Her early speeches focused on equal pay, working conditions and children’s rights, but as the war progressed she became increasingly anti-war and anti-Empire.
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 ...
