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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Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst
met Esther Roper
at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
(NESWS
). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB
immediately after this, and the... |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS
met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Pain
, Jerome K. Jerome
, Hugh Walpole
, and Ernest Temple Thurston
. Pett Ridge (P... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Health | Emmeline Pankhurst | |
Literary responses | Emmeline Pankhurst | June Purvis
traces the influence on EP
's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia
, estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Lytton | CL
spoke at an At Home of the Women's Social and Political Union
at Queen's Hall in London which was chaired by Christabel Pankhurst
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (6 April 1909): 12 |
Occupation | Sarah Grand | SG
began giving public lectures this year, the year after publishing her ground-breaking novel on syphilis, The Heavenly Twins. She lectured at the Pioneer Club
, the Sunday Lecture Society
(at St George's Hall... |
Occupation | Emmeline Pankhurst | In the late summer of 1925, she decided to invest her money in a new venture. She opened The English Teashop of Good Hope for tourists on the French Riviera, with the help of... |
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 | Mary Gawthorpe | The Women's Social and Political Union
was only just spreading from Manchester, its birthplace in Lancashire, across the Pennines into Yorkshire. MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
in Glamorgan, Wales, to mobilize mining... |
politics | Constance Lytton | She attended a preparatory meeting at Queen's Hall on Monday the 12th, and offered her services the next day to the leaders, Emmeline Pankhurst
, Christabel Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
. They asked her... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
politics | Constance Lytton | The others included Christabel Pankhurst
, Jane Esdon Brailsford
, and Emily Davison
. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 204, 209 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The Pethick-Lawrences returned from South Africa not only because of the prospect of an election but because two women, Christabel Pankhurst
and Annie Kenney
, had been thrown into jail in October 1905 for shouting... |
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