cover image E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical

E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical

Patricia W. Romero. Yale University Press, $25 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04482-9

Pankhurst's (1882-1960) career was virtually synonymous with English social protest in her time. She campaigned implacably for women's suffrage, the rights of unmarried mothers, pacifism, communism and, finally and somewhat incongruously, the cause of Emperor Haile Selassie. ``A lucid, well-documented biography,'' commented PW . Photos. (May)