Sylvia Pankhurst

5 May 1882 (Manchester) - 27 September 1960 (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia). Artist, politically committed writer who wanted to experiment with literary form. Militant suffragette. Her mother was Emmeline Pankhurst, a suffragette and founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).

Sources:

Bullock, Ian: Sylvia Pankhurst. From Artist to Anti-Fascist. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Dodd, Kathryn: A Sylvia Pankhurst Reader. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993.

Romero, W. Patricia: E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Portrait of a Radical. London: YUP, 1987.