A big thank you to Tessa Chynoweth from the Pankhurst Centre for nominating A Suffragette in America as her radical read of the year for the History Workshop Journal. I'm delighted the book is there alongside other great radical reads and I'm sure Sylvia Pankhurst would have been too.
Tessa said: "Katherine read extracts from it at the Pankhurst Centre in May and something about the collapsing of time (both in terms of the prescient-ness of Sylvia’s discussions of rampant capitalism and exploitation on the grounds of sex and race, and also of hearing a young Sylvia’s words in the house where she grew up) took my breath away."
You can read her kind words and the other entries here. And if you're looking for a gift to cheer up a socialist feminist this Christmas, may I suggest you look here!
A blog in support of E. Sylvia Pankhurst's 'A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change' (Pluto Press, 2019).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
-
Sylvia Pankhurst was reliant upon trains for her tour of North America. The triumph of the car and the oil industry since would render it...
-
Yesterday I posted my review of Sylvia , a musical currently playing at The Old Vic, about the life of Sylvia Pankhurst. But there's mo...
-
The warm glow of the human heart in dark times On transatlantic solidarity in dark times, friendship and the power of art as resistanc...
-
Just days before she left for America for the first time, Sylvia Pankhurst was hit by a devastating tragedy. Today, I set out with my part...
-
Really looking forward to talking about Sylvia Pankhurst tomorrow. Details of how to join the discussion below:
