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

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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
That summer CL realised that we loved each other, and no mistake. From that...
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
Christabel Pankhurst moved her mother to a nursing home in Hampstead; Sylvia was not involved because of their political differences.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
175
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
185, 199
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
EPL spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU , Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged...
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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