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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.
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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.
Dec 23, 2015 · 'Wayward suffragette' Adela Pankhurst and her remarkable Australian life. Resented by her mother, Emmeline’s rebel daughter has only a glancing reference in the film Suffragette. But her...
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.
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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Aug 24, 2018 · Adela Pankhurst was the youngest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. She campaigned for women’s suffrage in the UK and Australia, but also held controversial views on contraception, abortion and fascism.
Learn about Adela Pankhurst, the daughter of British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, who was imprisoned in Australia for four months in 1917 for speaking against the war and conscription. Discover her early speeches on equal pay, working conditions and children’s rights, and how she became more anti-war and anti-Empire as the war progressed.
