Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst Papers

Period 1863-1960 (-1998)
Total size   4.8 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Manchester 1882, died in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1960; suffragette and internationalist socialist; founder of the East London Federation of the Suffragettes/Workers' Suffrage Federation and its paper Woman's Dreadnought/Workers' Dreadnought 1914-1924; launched the Communist Party, British Section of the Third International in June 1920; active in several antifascist and pacifist organizations; founder and editor of The New Times and Ethiopia News 1936-1956 and the Ethiopia Observer 1956-1960.

Content

Personal archive with some papers of relatives and documents of the archives of the East London Federation of the Suffragettes and the Women's Franchise League. Personal papers: personal documents; some personal correspondence with E.C. Wolstenholme Elmy 1907-1910, James Keir Hardie 1905-1915, Dora Russell 1931, 1939-1940, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence 1929-1932 and others; drafts, handwritten and typed manuscripts of writings (some of them unpublished) on her journeys to Scandinavia, the USA and Soviet Russia, on Rumania, of prose fiction, plays and poetry, etc.; notes and printed material used for publications with some correspondence and printed proofs; correspondence, other documents and printed material on her activities in the suffragette movement, including the East London Federation of the Women's Social and Political Union 1905-1913; on social activities in the First World War, including the East London Toy Factory; on political activities, i.e. antimilitarism, international and Russian communism and the Communist Party, British Section of the Third International; on antifascism, in particular her support of Ethiopia and its emperor and the publication of The New Times and Ethiopia News. East London Federation of the Suffragettes, from 1916 Workers' Suffrage Federation, from 1918 Workers' Socialist Federation: minute books 1913-1920, accountbooks, correspondence, proofs of annual reports and other documents. Women's Franchise League: minute book of the Executive Committee 1896-1897 and some letters, e.g. from Mrs. Jacob Bright to Emmeline Pankhurst 1893-1894. Papers of relatives: of her father Richard M. Pankhurst (died 1898), of her mother Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), of her sister Christabel H. Pankhurst (1880-1958), of her son Richard K. P. Pankhurst (born 1928); of more distant relatives and of Silvio Corio (father of Richard K.P. Pankhurst).

Processing information

Inventory made by M. Wilhelmina H. Schreuder and Margreet Schrevel

Secondary creator

East London Federation of the Suffragettes. Women's Freedom League (UK)

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilms publication by Research Publications 1991.

37 security microfilms