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Pankhurst was an outspoken activist in Australia. Born in Britain, she moved to Melbourne in 1914 and was part of an emerging women's movement committed to political and social change. She joined the Victorian Socialist Party and was noted for her opposition to both conscription and to war. The prosecution came after Adela led a demonstration ...
Like her sister Sylvia, Adela kept her ties with the Independent Labour Party (ILP) throughout the campaign, whereas her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel broke them. Adela was arrested for a second time at the House of Commons and sentenced to two months in prison.
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Adela Pankhurst was born in 1885, the third daughter of the famous English suffrage campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst and Richard Pankhurst, barrister-at-law. She followed her mother and sisters Christabel and Sylvia into the campaign for the suffrage, working as a paid organizer for the society they founded, the Women's Social and Political Union.
The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the leading militant organisation campaigning for Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, was founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester on 10 October 1903 by six women, including Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, who soon emerged as the group’s leaders. Sylvia and Adela, Christabel’s sisters, were also committed ...
Helen Pankhurst (great-granddaughter) Alula Pankhurst (great-grandson) Emmeline Pankhurst ( née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [1] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 ...
Jan 19, 2016 · Emmeline Pankhurst, the grande dame of the suffragette movement, sent an angry telegram to the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, condemning her daughter, Adela Pankhurst, for her opposition to World War I and compulsory conscription laws. The 26-word telegram, sent on 8 March 1917, has been uncovered by the University of Melbourne Archives.
