Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist, socialist, activist, artist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class
Pankhurst (right) with her mother Emmeline Pankhurst (left) and sister Christabel Pankhurst (centre) in 1911
Pankhurst on hunger strike carried by supporters, London, June 1914
WSF toy factory, London East End, 1915
Pankhurst protesting in Trafalgar Square against British policies in India, 1932
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union and founder of The Suffragette newspaper,
Sylvia Pankhurst
…enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and conferred in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party…
Charlotte Marsh, Dorothy Radcliffe and Elsa Gye in December 1908 organising a welcome for Christabel Pankhurst after she left prison