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Adela Constantia Mary Walsh (née Pankhurst; 19 June 1885 – 23 May 1961) was a British born suffragette who worked as a political organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Scotland.
Aug 24, 2018 · Yet despite being named alongside 58 others on a statue of Millicent Fawcett recently unveiled in London, Adela Pankhurst has been largely ignored by popular histories of suffrage.
Aug 24, 2018 · Her sisters and mother have become synonymous with the movement that won votes for women, and the Pankhurst family are rightly celebrated for their leading role in women’s suffrage, but Adela has all but disappeared from history.
Adela was born on 19 June 1885 at Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire, England, third daughter of Richard Marsden Pankhurst, barrister-at-law, and his wife Emmeline, née Goulden. A liberal intellectual, Richard supported working-class self-improvement movements.
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Pankhurst, Adela (1885–1961) Participant with her mother and sisters in the prewar militant British women's suffrage movement, who emigrated to Australia in 1914 where she helped found, at different times, two ideologically opposed organizations, the Australian Communist Party and the Australian Women's Guild of Empire.
May 19, 2016 · Adela was one of those who formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and when the WSPU changed tactics in 1905, Adela was given the task of disrupting the meetings of the then Liberal, Winston Churchill.
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Adela Pankhurst was imprisoned in October 1917 for four months after repeatedly defying the Unlawful Associations Act and speaking at rallies against the government and conscription. When offered release on bond if she promised not to speak again in public, Pankhurst chose jail.
