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5 May 1882 (Manchester) - 27 September 1960 (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia). Artist, politically committed writer who wanted to experiment with literary form. Militant suffragette. Her mother was Emmeline Pankhurst, a suffragette and founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).

In 1925 Sylvia Pankhurst had a love relationship with Silvio Corio, who was of Italian origin. Corio's father died when he was in his teenage years. After his military service in Italy, at the age of 25, he went to France. In France he got arrested by the France police on suspicion of being involved in a bomb plot. On his release he escaped to England. There he met Syliva Pankhurst in London. Together they published the newspaper Dreadnought and in April 1923 Silvio Corio published his newspaper the Germinal. When Dreadnought folded, Sylvia worked on a new project. Like her mother and sister who ran a tearoom in the south of France, she started a weekend tearoom in London. She used her house, that she called "The Red Cottage" as location for her tearoom. Instead of alcohol, Sylvia, who did not drink offered a family-style service at her tearoom, the only drawback was that she could not cook. However, she got help from friends and Corio who could cook. While running the tearoom at the weekends she started to write several books.

In December 1927, Pankhurst was forty-five; she gave birth to a son, and named him Richard, after her father. During her pregnancy she wrote a book Save the Mother: A plea for a National Maternity Service where she discussed the birth of her child and the problems surrounding motherhood. Sylvia and Silvio never got married. She believed in free love and remembered unhappy marriages from her youth and had read on successful women who rejected marriage, like her heroine Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1956 she moved to Addis Abbeba with her son Richard. In September 1960, Sylvia died at the age of seventy-eight. [How did she get to Addis Abbeba?]

Sources:

Bullock, Ian: Sylvia Pankhurst. From Artist to Anti-Fascist. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Dodd, Kathryn: A Sylvia Pankhurst Reader. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993.

Romero, W. Patricia: E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Portrait of a Radical. London: YUP, 1987.

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 May 1882 (Manchester) - 27 September 1960 (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia). Artist, politically committed writer who wanted to experiment with literary form. Militant [[Suffragette|suffragette]]. Her mother was Emmeline Pankhurst, a suffragette and founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union ([[WSPU]]).
-In 1925 Sylvia Pankhurst had a love relationship with Silvio Corio, who was of Italian origin. He had fled to England, because he was politically persecuted by the Italian government. Together they published the newspaper ''Dreadnought'' and in April 1923 Silvio Corio published his newspaper the ''Germinal''. When ''Dreadnought'' folded, Sylvia worked on a new project. Like her mother and sister who ran a tearoom in the south of France, she started a weekend tearoom [where?]. Instead of alcohol, Sylvia, who did not drink offered a family-style service at her tearoom, the only drawback was that she could not cook. However, she got help from friends and Corio who could cook.  While running the tearoom at the weekends she started to write several books.
+In 1925 Sylvia Pankhurst had a love relationship with Silvio Corio, who was of Italian origin. Corio's father died when he was in his teenage years. After his military service in Italy, at the age of 25, he went to France. In France he got arrested by the France police on suspicion of being involved in a bomb plot. On his release he escaped to England. There he met Syliva Pankhurst in London.
+Together they published the newspaper ''Dreadnought'' and in April 1923 Silvio Corio published his newspaper the ''Germinal''. When ''Dreadnought'' folded, Sylvia worked on a new project. Like her mother and sister who ran a tearoom in the south of France, she started a weekend tearoom in London. She used her house, that she called "The Red Cottage" as location for her tearoom. Instead of alcohol, Sylvia, who did not drink offered a family-style service at her tearoom, the only drawback was that she could not cook. However, she got help from friends and Corio who could cook.  While running the tearoom at the weekends she started to write several books.
-In December 1927, Pankhurst was forty-five; she gave birth to a son, and named him Richard, after her father. During her pregnancy she wrote a book ''Save the Mother: A plea for a National Maternity Service'' where she discussed the birth of her child and the problems surrounding motherhood. Sylvia and Silvio never got married. She believed in free love and remembered unhappy marriages from her youth and had read on successful women who rejected marriage, like her heroine [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]. In September 1960, Sylvia died at the age of seventy-eight.  [How did she get to Addis Abbeba?]
+In December 1927, Pankhurst was forty-five; she gave birth to a son, and named him Richard, after her father. During her pregnancy she wrote a book ''Save the Mother: A plea for a National Maternity Service'' where she discussed the birth of her child and the problems surrounding motherhood. Sylvia and Silvio never got married. She believed in free love and remembered unhappy marriages from her youth and had read on successful women who rejected marriage, like her heroine [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]. In 1956 she moved to Addis Abbeba with her son Richard. In September 1960, Sylvia died at the age of seventy-eight.  [How did she get to Addis Abbeba?]