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 |
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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 | 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 | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
kept the salon going through the First World War. In 1917 she organised a meeting of women committed to pacifism which included a gentle, white-haired little woman who turned out to be Mrs [Emmeline] Pankhurst |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER
became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union
, and her... |
politics | Clara Codd | CC
took part in the rush on the House of Commons
led by Christabel Pankhurst
. She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol
, becoming the... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | Earlier that year ER
had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst
' move toward a more radical militancy. Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press. 205-9, 211-12 |
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 | Clara Codd | Around 1903 when CC
joined the Theosophists, she also became a member of the Social Democratic Federation
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement. the Taylor & Francis Group. 134 |
politics | Violet Hunt | Some of the WSPU
's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst
to Mrs Humphry Ward
, author and vocal... |
politics | Clara Codd | At a breakfast held to celebrate her release, along with the release of seven other suffragists, CC
spoke in praise of the work done by prison wardresses. In their treatment of non-political prisoners, she said... |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
wrote that she would gladly have been jailed for her efforts along with other activists, but because she was the caregiver of her aging mother
and young niece
, Mrs Pankhurst
and Christabel
kindly... |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series... |
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. 146-8 |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Peter Schütze
, being Australian, thought it natural for women to have the vote, and understood that the tactic of violence was chosen only in desperation when everything else had failed. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 93-4 |
politics | Naomi Jacob | NJ
began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to... |
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