Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (born 1882)

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…