Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960)

Sylvia Pankhurst

English activist, writer and artist (1882–1960)

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…