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A Short Biography of Sylvia Pankhurst

Author Name:

Sylvia Pankhurst

Born As:

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst

Other Names:

Born:

05 May 1882

Died:

27 Sep 1960




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Suffragist                          
Selected Works:

The Home Front - 1932; reissued 1987 by The Cresset Library
Soviet Russia as I saw it - London - 1921
The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals - reissued 1984 by Chatto & Windus
A Sylvia Pankhurst Reader - ed. by Kathryn Dodd - Manchester University Press - 1993
Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils - includes Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics" -  - St. Petersburg - Florida: Red and Black Publishers - 2007.

Secondary literature:

Mary Davis - Sylvia Pankhurst - Pluto Press - 1999
Richard Pankhurst - Sylvia Pankhurst: Artist and Crusader - An Intimate Portrait - Virago Ltd - 1979
Richard Pankhurst - Sylvia Pankhurst: Counsel for Ethiopia - Hollywood - Calif.: Tsehai - 2003 London: Global
Shirley Harrison - Sylvia Pankhurst - A Crusading Life 1882–1960 -Aurum Press - 2004
Shirley Harrison - Sylvia Pankhurst - Citizen of the World - Hornbeam Publishing Ltd - 2009
Barbara Castle - Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst - Penguin Books - 1987
Martin Pugh - The Pankhursts - Penguin Books - 2002
Patricia W. Romero - E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Portrait of a Radical - New Haven and London: Yale University Press - 1987
Barbara Winslow - Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism - New York: St. Martin's Press - 1996.
                          
Mother Emmeline Goulden
Father Dr. Richard Pankhurst                           
                          
Pankhurst objected to entering into a marriage contract and taking a husband's name.

Lived with Silvo Corio for over 30 years. Silvo Corio, an Italian anarchist, moved to Woodford Green.

Sylvia Pankhurst  gave birth to a son, Richard, and refused to marry the child's father.

Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, broke with her and did not speak to her again.