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Sylvia Pankhurst (English feminist and socialist)

  • E. Sylvia Pankhurst
  • Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
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Pankhurst, Sylvia
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Female
Date of birth
1882-05-05
Place of birth
Manchester
Date of death
1960-09-27
Place of death
Ādīs Ābeba

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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 government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and consulted in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik regime.

Pankhurst was vocal in her support for Irish independence; for anti-colonial struggle throughout the British Empire; and for anti-fascist solidarity in Europe. Following its invasion by Italy in 1935, she was devoted to the cause of Ethiopia where, after the Second World War, she spent her remaining years as a guest of the restored emperor Haile Selassie. The international circulation of her pan-Africanist weekly The New Times and Ethiopia News was regarded by British colonial authorities as a factor in the development of African nationalism, and of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica.

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Goodreads Author ID
5029473
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pankhurstesylvia
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL563165A
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51731588
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Q298213

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