Sylvia Pankhurst
(1882-1960)

woman, campaigner for women's rights, founder of the Suffragette Movement, and Suffragette

Died aged c. 78

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was a campaigning English feminist and socialist. Committed to organising working-class women in London's East End, and unwilling in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, she broke with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. She was inspired by the Russian Revolution and consulted with Lenin, but defied Moscow in endorsing a syndicalist programme of workers' control and by criticising the emerging Soviet dictatorship. Pankhurst was vocal in her support for Irish independence; for anti-colonial struggle throughout the British Empire; and for anti-fascist solidarity in Europe. Following the Italian invasion in 1935, she was devoted to the cause of Ethiopia where, after the Second World War, she spent her remaining years as a guest of the restored emperor Haile Selassie. The international circulation of her pan-Africanist weekly The New Times and Ethiopia News was regarded by the British authorities as a factor in the development of nationalist sentiment in west Africa, and in the West Indies of Ras Tafari.

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Commemorated on 6 plaques

Sylvia Pankhurst 1882-1960 campaigner for Women's Rights lived here

120 Cheyne Walk, Kensington and Chelsea, SW10, London, United Kingdom where they lived

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her daughters Christabel Pankhurst and Sylvia Pankhurst, founders of the Suffragette Movement, lived here 1897-1907

The Pankhurst Centre, 60-62 Nelson Street, Manchester, United Kingdom where they lived

Site of "Gunmakers Arms" P.H. taken over in 1915 by Sylvia Pankhurst and her suffragettes for use as a day nursery when it was known as "The Mothers Arms"

45 Norman Grove, E3, London, United Kingdom where they took over this building in 1915 with her suffragettes for use as a day nursery (1915)

Site of West Dene, 3 Charteris Road, former home of E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Artist, Suffragette, Anti-Fascist and Friend of Ethiopia.

Tamar Square Flats, Charteris Road, Woodford Green, London, United Kingdom where they lived (1924-1956)

To those who in 1932 upheld the right to use bombing aeroplanes this monument is raised as a protest against war in the air. The site of this monument is the property of Sylvia Pankhurst. Design and work by Eric Benfield. Originally unveiled by R P Zaphiro, secretary of the Imperial Ethiopian Legation London. Supported by James Ranger, E J A Webster, J Davey, Sylvia Pankhurst. October 20th 1935

High Road, Woodford Green, London, United Kingdom where they lived near

Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928 and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia Founders of the Suffragette Movement lived in a house on this site 1888-1893

8 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom where they was