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 | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | October 1906, with the prospect of the re-opening of parliament, was full of suffrage activity for EPL
and her husband. They had Christabel Pankhurst
as a permanent guest at Clements Inn, occupying an office below... |
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 Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann. 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 | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | By 1913, EP
had moved to live with composer Ethel Smyth
at her cottage in Woking. The latter hints at a sexual relationship in her book Female Pipings in Eden and suggests that this... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | She intended to spearhead a campaign to provide a better start in life for the illegitimate children of soldiers and reluctant mothers. (Ethel Smyth
tried to dissuade her, took it philosophically when she was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
's mother was the famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst
. She was twenty years younger than her husband, and joined in his enthusiastic political campaigns before becoming involved in politics on her own. Sylvia always... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
had a serious falling-out with her mother and her elder sister Christabel
when they supported Britain's military efforts during the First World War. Her views on socialism and feminism, which diverged considerably from her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | DR
began a close friendship with Veronica Leslie-Jones
, a militant suffragette and friend of the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst
; this introduction was the most significant result for her of participating in the Arachne Club
. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 43, 50-1 Winning, Joanne. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. University of Wisconsin Press. 23 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
's husband, Richard Pankhurst
, died suddenly from perforated stomach ulcers while she and her daughter Christabel
were visiting Geneva. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 40-1 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 26 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
gave birth to five children in all, four of them within five years. The two eldest, Christabel Harriette
(born in September 1880) and Estelle Sylvia
(born in May 1882), became, like their mother, high-profile... |
Employer | Dora Marsden | By this time Marsden was earning an annual salary of £108. She resigned from the Union after one of its central committees (which included Christabel Pankhurst
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
) refused... |
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