A Suffragette in America: launching book and blog

In 1913, at the height of the militant suffragette movement in Britain, Sylvia Pankhurst was writing a book about modern America based on her lecture tours there. This powerful manuscript of 8 chapters remained, unfinished, in her archive for 106 years - and has now been published for the first time.

I have edited and introduced this manuscript and am going to be touring with the book around the UK and the USA over the coming months. Lots booked up already but please do get in contact if you'd like me to come and speak about the book where you are.

On the blog you'll find everything connected with the book: upcoming events and reviews, as well as posts from where Sylvia Pankhurst went and what I'm discovering about the past and present by retracing her footsteps.

The book is being launched in London at the Bishopsgate Institute on Thursday 16 May, 7pm. Tickets available here: https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/event/1183/A-Suffragette-in-America-Reflections-on-Prisoners-Pickets-and-Political-Change

Here's the cover of the book, beautifully designed by Melanie Patrick, which shows Sylvia Pankhurst on her arrival in New York for the first time.