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Suffragette sisters on Old Age : unpublished correspondence between Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, 1953-57
Verfasst von:
Pankhurst, Richard
in:
Wallingford:
2001
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483 - 537 : Faksmiles S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Pankhurst, Richard |
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| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) were key figures in the fight for women's suffrage in Edwardian Britain but became estranged in 1914 over differences of view about policies and tactics for winning the vote. They had no contact with each other for almost forty years. In the spring of 1953, Sylvia had a severe heart attack and was not expected to survive. Christabel wrote a letter of sympathy to her which led, over the next four years, to intermitttent correspondence between the two sisters. In these letters, which form the basis of this documentary article, the authors begin by reminiscing about their childhood and parents; later, they comment on what they perceive to be inaccuracies and/or malice in books about the suffragette movement that were published after the Second World War. In many of the letters, the sisters reflect on their memories of their involvemnt in the women's suffrage movement, some three decades earlier. The correspondence reveals, however, that the renewed contact between the sisters didd not lead to any real meeting of minds. Two of the letters are reproduced photograhically in full | |
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