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19 de may. de 2016 · Although Adela (born 1885) is the least remembered of the Pankhurst sisters, in 1929 Dora Montefiore wrote that ‘I found her far and away the most intelligent of that family’. Adela was one of those who formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and when the WSPU changed tactics in 1905, Adela was given the task of disrupting ...
24 de ago. de 2018 · Adela Pankhurst’s letter to the governor of Dundee Prison. Barry Godfrey. , CC BY-NC-ND As testament to the good treatment she and the Scottish suffragettes had received at the hands of the authorities, she wrote personally to the governor of Dundee Prison inviting him and his staff to a nearby meeting where her mother was scheduled to speak.
Adela Pankhurst was imprisoned in October 1917 for four months after repeatedly defying the Unlawful Associations Act and speaking at rallies against the government and conscription. When offered release on bond if she promised not to speak again in public, Pankhurst chose jail. The daughter of British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela had ...
Pankhurst, Adela (1885–1961)Participant with her mother and sisters in the prewar militant British women's suffrage movement, who emigrated to Australia in 1914 where she helped found, at different times, two ideologically opposed organizations, the Australian Communist Party and the Australian Women's Guild of Empire.
24 de ago. de 2018 · Adela Pankhurst’s letter to the governor of Dundee Prison. Barry Godfrey. , CC BY-NC-ND As testament to the good treatment she and the Scottish suffragettes had received at the hands of the authorities, she wrote personally to the governor of Dundee Prison inviting him and his staff to a nearby meeting where her mother was scheduled to speak.
Adela Pankhurst was born in England in 1885 and with her mother and sisters was a leader of the suffrage movement. Moving to Australia in 1914 she was active in the Women's Political Association, the Women's Peace Army and the Victorian Socialist Party and was a close associate of Vida Goldstein.
