Adela Pankhurst
Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh (born June 19, 1885 in Manchester , Great Britain , † May 23, 1961 in Wahroonga , Australia ) was a British-Australian suffragette , political organizer and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia and the fascist Australia First Movement .
Adela Pankhurst was born into a political family, her father was Richard Pankhurst , a socialist who ran for Parliament and her mother Emmeline Pankhurst and her sisters Sylvia and Christabel were leaders in the British suffragette movement. Adela was educated at Studley Horticultural College in Warwickshire and the Manchester High School for Girls . As a teenager, Adela was active in the militant Women's Social and Political Union founded by her mother and sisters.
Adela Pankhurst emigrated to Australia with her family in 1914 and during the First World War she was an employee organizer of the Women's Peace Army in Melbourne with Vida Goldstein . Adela Pankhurst wrote the book Put Up the Sword and took part in public events against the war and Australian conscription .
She married Tom Walsh, a seaman and unionist for the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia in 1917. In 1920, Adela Pankhurst co-founded the Communist Party of Australia , from which she later turned away and in 1928 she founded the anti-communist Australian Women's Guild of Empire . In 1941 Adela became a founding member of the right-wing and nationalist Australia First Movement . When she went to Japan in 1939, she was arrested and interned until 1942 for her political work for peace with Japan.
She ended her public engagement when her husband died in 1943, with whom she had a son and three daughters.
After she died in Wahroonga Hospital in 1961, she was buried next to her husband at a Catholic funeral.
literature
- Verna Coleman: Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette 1885-1961 Melbourne University Press, 1996
- Joy Damousi: The Enthusiasms of Adela Pankhurst Walsh , Australian Historical Studies , April 1993, pp. 442-436
- Anne Summers: The Unwritten History of Adela Pankhurst Walsh , in Elizabeth Windschuttle (Ed.): Women, Class and History , Fontana / Collins, 1980, pp. 388-402
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b adb.online.anu.au : Pankhurst, Adela Constantia Mary (1885–1961), accessed on March 19, 2011 (English)
- ↑ Biographical summary in the National Foundation for Australian Women , biographical summary, accessed March 19, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pankhurst, Adela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walsh, Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Australian suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1961 |
| Place of death | Wahroonga , Australia |