A British Suffragette in America
British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst didn’t just want to talk to “society ladies” about the right to vote. She wanted the women’s movement to be part of a broader emancipatory project.
Katherine Connelly is a writer and historian. She is the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire and editor of A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change.
British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst didn’t just want to talk to “society ladies” about the right to vote. She wanted the women’s movement to be part of a broader emancipatory project.