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New in June 2026: Dreadnoughts: Wilfrid Gibson, Sylvia Pankhurst and The Woman’s Dreadnought

Just uploaded:  a new article discussing the association between ‘Poet of the Poor’ Wilfrid Gibson,  and  Sylvia Pankhurst’s socialist feminist paper The Woman’s Dreadnought. The connection illustrates the interwoven social, political and cultural networks of the time, and how for Gibson, poetry was a form of activism.  His work was amongst the many different ways … Continue reading New in June 2026: Dreadnoughts: Wilfrid Gibson, Sylvia Pankhurst and The Woman’s Dreadnought

Dreadnoughts: Wilfrid Gibson, Sylvia Pankhurst and The Woman’s Dreadnought

2026 Between 1914 and 1921, work by poet Wilfrid Gibson appeared in Sylvia Pankhurst’s socialist feminist paper the Woman’s Dreadnought. Their association throws light on the interwoven social, political and cultural networks of the time, and on Gibson’s commitment to ‘Art for Life’s Sake’: poetry as a form of activism.