The suffragette’s socialist ideals caused a rift with her mother and sisterIn life,they became personally and politically estranged. And decades after their deaths, the three Pankhurst women who did so much to win universal suffrage continue to be divided.
While Emmeline Pankhurst, and the founder of the suffragette movement,and her eldest daughter Christabel are commemorated by a statue and plaque at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens on the south-west corner of the houses of parliament, no such honour has been bestowed on Sylvia, and who broke with her family over her opposition to the first world war and pursuit of socialist ideals.
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Source: theguardian.com