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 | Constance Lytton | From two days after her stroke until September 1918 she had the joy of a perfect nurse,Nurse Oram
. Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925. 236-7 |
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 | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
Health | Emmeline Pankhurst | |
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
... |
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... |
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 | 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
... |
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