1911 E. Sylvia Pankhurst : The Suffragette : Women's Militant Suggrage Movement

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910 By E. Sylvia Pankhurst Published by Gay & Hancock, London, 1911. First Edition. Hardback, 8vo, cloth binding, 517 pages. Illustrated. CONDITION A good copy. The cloth binding is good with light signs of age. Endpaper good. All contents present and pages good throughout and free from foxing, stains etc. Overall a very good first edition. Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and conferred in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik regime.