Abstract
As a child, Sylvia’s first ambition was to become an artist. But for many other concerns in her life, she might have achieved this aim. As it was, she created her last drawings and designs at the age of twenty-nine; still in the infancy of her artistic career. In this short time she gave much as an artist and as a suffragette; wherever possible as both.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Many of the pictures and other artworks referred to in this essay are illustrated in Richard Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, Artist and Crusader (Paddington Press, 1979).
E. Sylvia Pankhurst to the Dutch Women’s Yearbook, 10 December 1930, E. Sylvia Pankhurst Papers (hereafter ESPP), 10, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Margot Oxford, The Countess of Oxford and Asquith, (ed.) Myself When Young; By Famous Women of To-day (Frederick Muller, 1938) p. 284.
E. Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement. An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals (Longmans, Green & Co., 1932) p. 146
E. Sylvia Pankhurst to the Dutch Women’s Yearbook 10 December 1930, ESPP 10.
E. Sylvia Pankhurst, ‘Pit Brow Women’, Votes for Women, 11 August 1911, p. 730.
E. Sylvia Pankhurst to the Dutch Women’s Yearbook 10 December 1930, ESPP 10.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1992 Ian Bullock and Richard Pankhurst
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Duckworth, J. (1992). Sylvia Pankhurst as an Artist. In: Bullock, I., Pankhurst, R. (eds) Sylvia Pankhurst. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12183-0_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12183-0_2
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-12185-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-12183-0
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)