Christabel Pankhurst (d. 1958)

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Biography

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she directed militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement.

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1903 Event

Co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union with her mother. Their motto: "Deeds, not words." Christabel directed strategy while Emmeline rallied crowds.

Whose idea was 'Deeds, not words' -- yours or your mother's? Did you and your mother ever disagree on strategy?

1905 Event

Arrested for spitting at a police officer after being ejected from a Liberal Party meeting for demanding answers on women's suffrage. The arrest was deliberate. It made national news.

Was getting arrested the plan all along? Did you spit at that officer out of rage or calculation?

1912 Event

Fled to Paris to avoid arrest and directed WSPU militant actions from exile. She founded The Suffragette newspaper and controlled the movement's strategy by correspondence.

How did it feel directing a revolution from exile? Did Paris feel like freedom or a cage?

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Portrait of Gabrielle Enthoven

Wright, Ethel (Miss)

ca.1911

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Letter from Christabel Pankhurst

Summary: ALS to Dr. Carpenter, from the Office of Present and Future, thanking him for a reply to Dr. Inge and containing a vigorous distillation of her later views on adventism and pacifism.

1934

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The World's Unrest: Visions of the Dawn

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2010

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