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Pankhurst was one of the leaders of the Women's Peace Army. She was jailed for agitation in support of the 1917 general strike in New South Wales. She also edited the Victorian Socialist Party children's magazine Dawn.

See Australian Women's Archive Project

See Susan Hogan, 'Pankhurst, Adela Constantia Mary (1885 - 1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography Online.

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Book Sections

• Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

• A.E.A. of Rozelle, 'Marriage under capitalism', Working Women, January 1932. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

• Goldstein, Vida; John, Cecilia, and Pankhurst, Adela, The Social Evil; Women's Convention, May 6 1916, Women's Political Association, Melbourne, 1916. Image PDF Details