Adela Pankhurst
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Having read about Sylvia, i found this article in the Guardian of interest
Makes me wan to read more about her. Any book suggestions?
What is more interesting is the trajectory of the members of this leading Suffragette family. The mother ends up a Tory. One of the daughters a Seventh Day Adventist, another a fascist and a Roman Catholic and another an admirer of the Emperor of Abyssinia. I wonder if this was typical of the Suffragettes. If so, it would back up our contention that, essentially, what they stood and struggled for was Votes for Rich Women and so not worthy of socialist or working class support. A demand for universal adult suffrage would have been more acceptable but that's not what they wanted, only votes for women on the same terms as men at the time. Which would have left most women and one-third of men without the vote. And we're supposed to admire them.
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