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Books: Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist And Scourge Of Empire
A new biography of Sylvia Pankhurst shows how her activism was grounded in the struggle for working-class rights says PAUL DONOVAN

Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist And Scourge Of Empire

by Katherine Connelly

(Pluto Press, £13)

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