Adlea Pankhurst swings both ways

1885 Adela Pankhurst (d. 1961), feminist and pacifist, communist, then fervent anti-communist, daughter of suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst with whom she became estranged, mainly because of Adela's political position on many issues, which was further to the left than those of her mother. She was sister of Sylvia Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst, who, with mother Emmeline, edged Adela out of their movement.

In 1917, Adela married the Irish seaman's unionist, Tom Walsh, a widower with three daughters; they moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1914 partly for reasons of Adela's health, and there she remained till the end of her life in 1961. In Australia, she worked with Vida Goldstein and the Women's Political Association, campaigning against conscription particularly with the Women's Peace Army. By war's end, Adela and Tom were living in Sydney. Sometime between the wars, her politics shifted from left to right, and in 1941, she formed the Australia First movement, a conservative, nationalist, proto-fascist movement.