Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960

found: LC data base, 2/24/84(hdg.: Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia, 1882-1960; usage: E. Sylvia Pankhurst; variant: Sylvia Pankhurst)

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Pankhurst, Sylvia; newspaper editor / publisher, socialist, suffragist, anticolonial activist; born 05 May, 1882 in Manchester, England; established East London Federation of Suffragettes and founded weekly paper, the Dreadnought (1920s-1924); established World Suffrage Federation, later World Socialist Federation (1920); founding member of Communist Party of Great Britain (expelled in 1921); established weekly newspaper New Times and Ethiopia News (NT&EN) to advocate for Ethiopia (1934-1956); worked to prevent the recognition of Italian claims to Ethiopia, League of Nations, Britain (1936-1938); sent letters and petitions to politicians and British government to support the Ethiopian cause during the war with Italy; criticized the Anglo-Ethiopian treaties (1942, 1944); visited Eritrea and Ethiopia (1944) and wrote NT&EN publications on British policy; moved to Ethiopia and started Ethiopia Observer (1956); died 27 September, 1960 in Ethiopia)