RENAISSANCE WOMAN SYLVIA PANKHURST: FEMINIST, ARTIST, COUNCIL COMMUNIST, ANTI-IMPERIALIST – The Greanville Post greanvillepost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greanvillepost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Why Sylvia Matters How many of you about to read this have heard of Sylvia Pankhurst? Our guess is, not many. She seems to have fallen through the cracks of socialist and suffragette movement literature. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst and sister, Christabel Pankhurst are still looked up to as leaders in the suffragette movement. What […]
As the campaign for women s suffrage grew more extreme, so did the violence directed against it. Here, Emelyne Godfrey reveals how suffragettes fought back by mastering an ancient Japanese martial art