Sylvia Pankhurst
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Sylvia Pankhurst (1909)
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Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst 5 May 1882 Old Trafford, Manchester, England |
| Died | 27 September 1960 (aged 78) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Burial place | Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa |
| Alma mater |
Manchester School of Art Royal College of Art |
| Occupation | Political activist, writer, artist |
| Partner(s) | Silvio Corio |
| Children | Richard Pankhurst |
| Parent(s) |
Richard Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden) |
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement, a prominent left communist and, later, an activist in the cause of anti-fascism.
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (she later dropped her first forename) was born in Manchester, a daughter of Dr Richard Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst, who both later became founding members of the Independent Labour Party and were much concerned with women's rights. Sylvia and her sisters, Christabel and Adela, attended Manchester High School for Girls, and all three became suffragists.
Sylvia trained as an artist at the Manchester School of Art, and, in 1900, won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in South Kensington. In 1907 she toured industrial towns in the North of England and in Scotland, painting portraits of working-class women in their working environments.
In 1906, Sylvia Pankhurst started to work full-time for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) with her sister Christabel and their mother. She applied her artistic talents on behalf of the WSPU, devising its logo and various leaflets, banners and posters as well, as the decoration of its meeting halls. However, in contrast to Emmeline and Christabel, she retained an affiliation with the labour movement and concentrated her activity on local campaigning. She and Amy Bull founded the East London Federation of the WSPU. Sylvia also contributed articles to the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women and, in 1911, she published a propagandist history of the WSPU's campaign, The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement.
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