Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel - Rachel Holmes Journal Professor of English Literature at

Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews)

Very few authors manage to accessible writing with deep insight into how society works

From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War

she found many parallels between the two countries

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel - Rachel Holmes Journal Professor of English Literature at'A wonderful book Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times 'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________ Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel. Yet artist Sylvia Pankhurst was the most revolutionary of them all. Sylvia found her voice