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Sylvia Pankhurst

(1882–1960) Journalist United Kingdom

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Sylvia Pankhurst was a journalist from the United Kingdom, best known for The suffragette.

Quick Facts About Sylvia Pankhurst

Born
May 5, 1882
Died
September 27, 1960
Nationality
United Kingdom
Profession
Journalist
Notable works
The suffragette
Known for
Holloway brooch

About Sylvia Pankhurst

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst 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 conferred in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik regime.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Hunger Strike Medal

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