Sylvia Pankhurst, Artist and Crusader: An Intimate Portrait

New York and London: Paddington Press, Ltd, 1979. Cloth, 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. CONTENTS: Childhood: political and artistic influence; School, the Independent Labour Party, Keir Hardie, the Manchester School of Art; Venice, Pankhurst Hall, Salford, the founding of the WSPU; The Royal College of Art, Austin Spare, early suffragette activity; Beginnings of women's militancy in Manchester and London, artist or reformer?; Two imprisonments in Holloway, prison sketches, drawing for the WSPU; Studying and sketching women's work in Northern England and Scotland, electioneering for the WSPU; Increased suffragette militancy, WSPU designs and banners, decorations for the Prince's skating rink; Escalating militancy, Oberammergau, the United States, late paintings; The East End, hunger, thirst and sleep strikes, forcible feeding, the "Cat and mouse" Act; The East London Federation of Suffragettes, the Woman's Dreadnought, forcing the prime minister to receive a deputation, the end of an artistic career; The first World War, the rise of fascism, author and mother, the Italo-Ethiopian War, emigration to Addis Ababa.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.