A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change

by E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Book Overview

This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Unlike the standard suffragette tours which focused on courting progressive members of America's social elite for money, Pankhurst got her hands dirty, meeting striking laundry workers in New York, visiting female prisoners in Philadelphia and Chicago and grappling with horrific racism in Nashville, Tennessee. Adored by socialist students and progressive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745339360
• ISBN13: 9780745339368
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"