Sylvia Pankhurst : natural born rebel / Rachel Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Rachel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960.

Pankhurst, E. Sylvia.

Women social reformers--Great Britain--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Women radicals.

Great Britain.

Social reformers--Great Britain--Biography.

Social reformers.

Women radicals--Great Britain--Biography.

Radicals--Great Britain--Biography.

Radicals.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 949 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Natural born rebel

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

The definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, a woman ahead of her times - political rebel, human rights champion and radical feminist. Born into one Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel; a talented artist, prolific writer and newspaper editor. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel. Yet Sylvia Pankhurst was the most revolutionary of them all. Sylvia found her voice fighting militantly for votes for women. Her commitment to equality caused her to serve multiple sentences in Holloway prison - where she was tortured. The vote was just the beginning of her lifelong defence of human rights, from her early warnings of the rise of fascism in Europe, to her campaigning against racism and championing of the liberation struggles in Africa and India. Sylvia's adventures in America, Soviet Russia, Scandinavia, Europe and East Africa made her a true internationalist. She was one of the great minds of the modern era, engaging with political giants, including Churchill, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, George Bernard Shaw, W.E.B. Du Bois and Haile Selassie. Her intimate life was no less controversial. The rupture between Sylvia, Emmeline and Christabel became worldwide news. Her love affair with the married Keir Hardie was one of the great political romances of the age, and she never married her life partner Silvio Corio, with whom she had a son at the age of forty-five. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Holmes interweaves the personal and political to reveal Sylvia Pankhurst as never before. This major new biography celebrates a life in resistance, painting a compelling portrait of one of the greatest unsung political figures of the twentieth century.

Contents:

How to make a feminist 1882-1898

Decade of dilemma 1898-1908

Rage of militancy 1908-1914

In the red twilight 1914-1924

Modern times 1924-1945

African consciousness 1945-1960

Afterword: when I am gone.

Notes:

First published in Great Britain in 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 843-916) and index.

ISBN:

9781408880418

1408880415

OCLC:

1130360205

Publisher Number:

99986107944