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Christabel Pankhurst
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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Christabel
Birth Name: Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
CP
's early writing career was devoted to advancing the cause of militant suffragism; the second half of her career marked a shift to religious radicalism formed in part by her experience of the first world war.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
and Esther Roper
again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst
and Annie Kenney
after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other... |
| politics | Dora Marsden | Christabel
and Emmeline Pankhurst
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
also spoke at this event. |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
, which Emmeline Pankhurst
had founded on 10 October 1903 in Manchester, and which was now run by her eldest daughter, Christabel
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 146-8 |
| politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Beginning in 1912, and inspired by Keir Hardie
's dedication to the poor, SP
directed her political efforts at improving conditions for Cockney or working women in London's East End; this commitment puzzled her... |
| politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
| politics | Virginia Woolf | With the declaration of war, however, on 4 August, 1914, VW
's politics and those of the NUWSS parted company. The NUWSS supported the government, and on August the sixth resolved to suspend political activity... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her colleagues from the WSPU
, including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst
s and Kenney
, presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 154-5 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and Christabel Pankhurst
went on a speaking tour throughout Scotland, advocating female suffrage and staging demonstrations. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 180 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At the height of the suffrage movement, EPL
spoke in connection with the largest procession to date, at the Albert Hall. So did Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, Annie Kenney
, Annie Besant
... |
| politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
wrote to Christabel Pankhurst
(who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother
, and others like Olive Beamish
and |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
| Reception | Naomi Jacob | Despite having been reproved in her youth by no less a person than Christabel Pankhurst
for her love of popularity, NJ
continued to enjoy opening letters from readers. Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson, 1933. 199-200 |
| Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | A permanent, visible memorial to SP
has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline
and Christabel
have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons
; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist... |
| Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | The second piece here, dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst
, is Possession, a love song only minimally altered from one written by the working-class poet |
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