Sylvia Pankhurst : A Crusading Life, 1882-1960

Sylvia Pankhurst - daughter of Emmeline and younger sister of Christabel - isn many ways the most fascinating member of the Pankhurst family: not only aourageous and dauntless political campaigner but someone who led aingularly maverick and exotic life. As a young woman she supported theuffragette cause of her mother and sister, and during several periods ofmprisonment endured the horrific ordeal of force-feeding. She also enjoyed aong and intimate relationship with the veteran Labour politician Keir Hardie.xpelled from the Suffragettes after the war for refusing to drop theampaign for social justice in favour of the war effort, she subsequentlyecame a Communist, met Lenin in Moscow, and then had a child with an Italianolitical exile, with whom she campaigned against Italian fascism and for theause of Ethiopian independence. She spent the last years of her life inthiopia at the grateful invitation of Haile Selassie, and remains the onlyoreigner to have been honoured by an Ethiopian state funeral.Harrison, Shirley is the author of 'Sylvia Pankhurst : A Crusading Life, 1882-1960', published 2004 under ISBN 9781845130275 and ISBN 1845130278.