Lynx Theatre and Poetry

We were very sad to hear of the death of Rita Pankhurst, widow of Sylvia Pankhurst’s son Richard, at the age of 92. Rita, together with Richard, was enormously helpful and encouraging to Lynx Theatre and Poetry when we were planning Sylvia back in 1987. Rita was particularly helpful, as Head of the Library Services at the City of London Polytechnic, in showing us sources of information about Sylvia Pankhurst. Before leaving for Ethiopia in 1987, Rita asked William Alderson a

Katherine Connelly has edited previously unpublished notes by Sylvia Pankhurst about her trips to America. We were at the book launch in London. A Suffragette in America is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Where the standard suffragette tours focused on courting members of America's social elite for money, Sylvia Pankhurst met working women and women of strike from New York to Nashville, Tennessee, where she spoke to a meet

... a perfect combination of words and pictures." So said one member of the audience at the Museum of Wigan Life on International Women's Day. At Stoke-on-Trent, Thomas Hammersley came along to the “packed” performance at the impressive Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and posted a story on the StaffsLive website. He also included this picture of the new ‘old’ look in performance. Gone is Jackie’s curly red hair and jolly clothing, and here is the formal suit and short grey h

The latest news on SYLVIA by Jacqueline Mulhallen, the play about Sylvia Pankhurst. Produced by Lynx Theatre and Poetry, the spring tour of

Downham Market people have helped Jacqueline Mulhallen make Lynx Theatre and Poetry's production of SYLVIA true to the older Sylvia Pank