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Walsh, Adela Pankhurst (1885-1961)

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Pankhurst, Adela (1885-1961)
Pankhurst Walsh, Adela (1885-1961)
Walsh, Adela (1885-1961)
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Birth date 1885 according to Australian dictionary of biography, 12th ed.

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Australian Women's Register

Adela Pankhurst was a feminist and pacifist whose political affiliations shifted from communism to strong anti-communism over her lifetime of activism. Born in England, the daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela was involved with the British suffrage movement from her teenage years and then the Women's Social and Political Union which was founded by her mother and sisters in 1904. She later became estranged from her family and moved to Melbourne in 1914 partly for health reasons. Once there she worked with Vida Goldstein and the Women's Political Association and campaigned against conscription particularly with the Women's Peace Army. She also joined the Victorian Socialist Party. She married Tom Walsh, a fellow anti-conscriptionist, in 1917. After the war they moved to Sydney and had five children. They were foundation members of the Communist Party of Australia, but soon withdrew. Adela’s evolving anti-communism became starkly apparent when, in 1928, she founded the Australian Women's Guild of Empire. Pankhurst used this conservative patriotic organisation as a platform to advocate the need for industrial cooperation, and she frequently spoke out against strikes. She ended her public life in 1943 with her husband’s death.

Adela Pankhurst toured Australia in 1915 with Vida Goldstein and Cecilia Johns to set up branches of the Women's Peace Army, in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The Empire Gazette
    [1929-1940]
    Published: Australian Women's Guild of Empire, Sydney
  2. The unwritten history of Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    Summers, Anne
    [1980]
    Published: Fontana/Collins, Melbourne
  3. Adela Pankhurst: The wayward suffragette 1885-1961
    Coleman, Verna
    [1996]
    Published: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
  4. Feminists, food and the fair price: The cost of living demonstrations in Melbourne, August/ September 1917
    Smart, Judith
    [1995]
    Published: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/Melbourne
  5. After the war what?: Being papers on The Duties of labor, and, The Unity and morality of the nation
    Pankhurst, Adela
    [1917]
    Published: Socialist Party of Victoria, Melbourne
  6. Australia and the Empire
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst
    Published: Guild of Empire, Sydney
  7. Pankhurst, Adela Constantia Mary (1885 - 1961)
    Hogan, Susan
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
  8. Conditions in Japan: Lecture
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst
    [1940]
    Published: R. Dey, Son & Co, Sydney
  9. Industrial co-operation: Policy speech of the Australian Women's Guild of Empire
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst
    [1931]
    Published: Australian Women's Guild of Empire, Sydney
  10. Is communism possible in Australia?: Special to " Advance! Australia"
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst
    [1929?]
    Published: Publicity Press, Sydney
  11. Brazen hussies and God's police fighting back in the depression years. [Revised version of article published in Hecate, v.8, no.1, 1982]
    Stone, Janey
    [1998]
    Published: Interventions, Melbourne
  12. The Enthusiasms of Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    Damousi, Joy
    [1993]
  13. The Australian Women's Guild of Empire
    Castle, Josie
    [1980]
    Published: Fontana/Collins, Sdney
  14. The voice of the people: The people's welfare is the nation's strength
    [1940]
    Published: Adela Pankhurst Walsh, Sdyney
  15. Walsh, Adela Pankhurst (1885 - 1961)
    Papadopoulos, Sophie
    [2002]
    Published: University of Melbourne
  16. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press, Sydney
  17. [Biographical cuttings on Adela Pankhurst, suffragette]
    National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room
    BIOG
  18. [Biographical cuttings on Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh, leader of suffragette movement]
    National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room
    BIOG
  19. Papers of Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    [Microfilm : 1905 - 1961]
    The papers pertain equally to Tom and Adela's activities. There is a large volume of papers on the Seamen's Union. The papers include newspaper cuttings for the years 1924-1941; typescripts of articles, speeches and radio broadcasts by both Tom and Adela covering topics such as women's rights, communism, politics, labour disputes, and the war; copies of articles and addresses by other people on the same topics; photographs; copies of journals such as The voice of the people, and The people's guild; cash receipt books for the Seamen's Union; court writs, judgements and transcripts of proceedings; cables and correspondence including that with P. Spender, W. M. Hughes, R. Menzies and J. Curtin.
    39 microfilm reels
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    Call no: mfm G 22829 - G 22867
  20. Papers of Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    [1905 - 1961]
    Some photos from this Collection has been digitised at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms2123. Contains typescript articles, addresses and broadcasts by both Walshes on political and social issues significant in Australia's inter-war years such as strike, arbitration, Russia and communism, friendship with Japan and women's rights; papers on the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia which include Accounts of the NSW Branch, 1912, the General President's Weekly Expenditure Books for 1925 and 1926, a Register of Members for 1929, articles on court cases, minutes of meetings in 1925 and 1929, and papers on the industrial dispute at Innisfail in 1922; a few papers on the Australian Seamen's Union, including a draft constitution and rules; correspondence dating from 1906 containing union and personal letters; roneod and printed items such as The Voice of the People and The People Guild bulletins and International Anti-Communist Entente literature; and photographs relating to the feminist movement in Great Britain.
    2.13 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 2123

Resources By Adela Pankhurst Walsh (15)

  1. Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh papers
    [Unpublished : 1905-1961]
    Available online
  2. Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh papers
    [Unpublished : 1950]
  3. Voice of the people (Sydney, N.S.W.)
    [Periodical : 1940-2009]
  4. Betrayed : a play in five acts / by Adela Pankhurst
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1917]
  5. Put up the sword / Adela Pankhurst
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1915-1917]
  6. After the war what? : being papers on The Duties of labor, and, The Unity and morality of the nation / by Adela Pankhurst
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1917]
  7. Betrayed / Adela Pankhurst
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1917]
  8. Should we defend Australia? / by Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1936]
  9. Is communism possible in Australia? : special to " Advance! Australia" / by Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1929]
  10. Australia and the Empire / by Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    Walsh, Adela Pankhurst, 1885-1961
    [Book : 1945]

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  1. Todd, Ellen Joy. 1860-1948
    journalist; magazine/journal editor
    ... Pankhurst, Adela (1885 - 1961) ...
  2. Australian Women's Guild of Empire.
    ... Pankhurst, Adela (1885 - 1961) ...
  3. Baines, Sarah Jane. 1866-1951
    anti-conscriptionist; feminist; magistrate; pacifist; political activist; prisoner; socialist; women's activist
    ... Pankhurst, Adela Constantia Mary (1885 - 1961) ...