Suffragette and pacifist. Born to suffragette Emmeline (née Goulden) and barrister Richard Pankhurst. During her teenage years, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union, founded by her mother and sisters. At age 24, she protested during a speech by future Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and slapped a policeman trying to force her out of the building. She was arrested alongside three other women: Helen Archdale, Catherine Corbett, and Maud Joachim. Adela went on hunger strike in prison, but was not force fed like many other imprisoned suffragettes. She was one of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike and received a Hunger Strike Medal from the Women's Social and Political Union. She was later targeted by police during her protests.
She and her sister Sylvia fell out with their mother and sister, Christabel, due to the fact that Adela and Sylvia were socialists whilst Emmeline and Christabel were campaigning for the vote for middle-class women. Sylvia was ejected from her mother's party and started her own group in East London, while Adela was given a ticket to Australia, £20 and an introduction letter to feminist Vida Goldstein.
In 1917, whilst living in Australia, Adela married Thomas "Tom" Walsh, a trade unionist, and they had five children.
Adela founded the Communist Party of Australia, from which she was removed, and in 1927 she started the anti-communist group Australian Women's Guild of Empire. In 1941, she founded the fascist Australia First Movement. Being a pacifist, she campaigned for peace with Japan during the Second World War, and was put in prison for it. She was released seven months later.
He husband Tom died in 1943, and she retired from public life. She died eighteen years later.
She and her sister Sylvia fell out with their mother and sister, Christabel, due to the fact that Adela and Sylvia were socialists whilst Emmeline and Christabel were campaigning for the vote for middle-class women. Sylvia was ejected from her mother's party and started her own group in East London, while Adela was given a ticket to Australia, £20 and an introduction letter to feminist Vida Goldstein.
In 1917, whilst living in Australia, Adela married Thomas "Tom" Walsh, a trade unionist, and they had five children.
Adela founded the Communist Party of Australia, from which she was removed, and in 1927 she started the anti-communist group Australian Women's Guild of Empire. In 1941, she founded the fascist Australia First Movement. Being a pacifist, she campaigned for peace with Japan during the Second World War, and was put in prison for it. She was released seven months later.
He husband Tom died in 1943, and she retired from public life. She died eighteen years later.
Suffragette and pacifist. Born to suffragette Emmeline (née Goulden) and barrister Richard Pankhurst. During her teenage years, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union, founded by her mother and sisters. At age 24, she protested during a speech by future Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and slapped a policeman trying to force her out of the building. She was arrested alongside three other women: Helen Archdale, Catherine Corbett, and Maud Joachim. Adela went on hunger strike in prison, but was not force fed like many other imprisoned suffragettes. She was one of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike and received a Hunger Strike Medal from the Women's Social and Political Union. She was later targeted by police during her protests.
She and her sister Sylvia fell out with their mother and sister, Christabel, due to the fact that Adela and Sylvia were socialists whilst Emmeline and Christabel were campaigning for the vote for middle-class women. Sylvia was ejected from her mother's party and started her own group in East London, while Adela was given a ticket to Australia, £20 and an introduction letter to feminist Vida Goldstein.
In 1917, whilst living in Australia, Adela married Thomas "Tom" Walsh, a trade unionist, and they had five children.
Adela founded the Communist Party of Australia, from which she was removed, and in 1927 she started the anti-communist group Australian Women's Guild of Empire. In 1941, she founded the fascist Australia First Movement. Being a pacifist, she campaigned for peace with Japan during the Second World War, and was put in prison for it. She was released seven months later.
He husband Tom died in 1943, and she retired from public life. She died eighteen years later.
She and her sister Sylvia fell out with their mother and sister, Christabel, due to the fact that Adela and Sylvia were socialists whilst Emmeline and Christabel were campaigning for the vote for middle-class women. Sylvia was ejected from her mother's party and started her own group in East London, while Adela was given a ticket to Australia, £20 and an introduction letter to feminist Vida Goldstein.
In 1917, whilst living in Australia, Adela married Thomas "Tom" Walsh, a trade unionist, and they had five children.
Adela founded the Communist Party of Australia, from which she was removed, and in 1927 she started the anti-communist group Australian Women's Guild of Empire. In 1941, she founded the fascist Australia First Movement. Being a pacifist, she campaigned for peace with Japan during the Second World War, and was put in prison for it. She was released seven months later.
He husband Tom died in 1943, and she retired from public life. She died eighteen years later.
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