Suffragette in America

E. Sylvia Pankhurst was an English campaigner for the Suffragette movement, a prominent left communist and, later, an activist in the cause of anti-fascism. Katherine Connelly is a writer, historian and an expert on Sylvia Pankhurst. She is the author of the biography Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto, 2013) and editor of A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto, 2019).

• Photographs Acknowledgements Sylvia Pankhurst’s North American Tours – Timelines Note on the Text Introduction by Katherine Connelly SYLVIA PANKHURST’S TEXT AND EDITOR’S INTRODUCTIONSPreface 1. A Strike of Laundry Workers in New York 2. Laundries from the Inside 3. A Festival 4. Prisoners 5. A Socialist Administration – The Milwaukee City Council 6. A Red Indian College 7. Universities and Legislatures8. The South Notes Index

'Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on America is vibrant and engaging, combining an impassioned critique of different and reinforcing forms of oppression. This volume affords new insights by placing the text in the turbulent political context in which it was written. An important contribution to history'