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Adela Pankhurst was a British-born suffragette and activist who moved to Australia in 1914. She co-founded the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement, and opposed war and conscription.
Aug 24, 2018 · Adela Pankhurst was a suffragette who campaigned for women's right to vote in the UK, but later became controversial for her anti-communist and anti-immigration views in Australia. Learn how she was excluded from the popular histories of the movement and why her story matters.
Adela Pankhurst was the youngest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She campaigned for women's suffrage using militant tactics, such as disrupting political meetings, going on hunger strike in prison, and organizing mass demonstrations.
Adela Pankhurst was the youngest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and a militant campaigner for women's suffrage in England and Australia. She also supported working-class causes, pacifism, and communism, and clashed with her sisters over the WSPU's goals and tactics.
Aug 24, 2018 · Adela Pankhurst was the youngest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and a founding member of the WSPU. She campaigned for women's suffrage in the UK and Australia, but also held controversial views on contraception, abortion, and fascism.
In August and September of 1917 Adela Pankhurst—revolutionary socialist, feminist and exiled daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst—was perhaps the most dangerous woman in Australia, or at the very least in Melbourne. By November of the same year she was locked up in Pentridge Prison.
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Learn about Adela Pankhurst, the daughter of British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, who campaigned against the government and conscription in Australia during the First World War. See her biography, speeches, photos and sources on the museum website.
