Pankhurst, Christabel (1880-1958)

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Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 18, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Louis Freeland Post, October 18, 1913

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Birth Date

1880-09-22

Death Date

1958-02-13

Birthplace

Old Trafford, Manchester, England

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Christabel Pankhurst was the eldest daughter of British suffragist leader Emmeline Pankhurst and socialist Richard Pankhurst. Pankhurst was taught how to read at home, later attending Manchester High School for Girls before studying at University of Manchester. She received honors on her LL.B. exam but was unable to practice law because she was a woman. Pankhurst had her first suffragist experience in 1905 when she was arrested for shouting about voting rights for women at a Liberal Party meeting. This trial gained attention and led to an increase in membership of the Women's Social and Political Union, which Pankhurst was a co-founder of. In 1906 she moved to London and became the organizing secretary of the WSPU. Pankhurst was nicknamed "Queen of the Mob" for her militaristic activism and for being arrested numerous times; from 1913 to 1914 she lived in Paris to avoid imprisonment. When World War I started she was forced to return to England, where she was arrested but only kept in prison for 30 days (out of three years) for going on a hunger strike. She was also an editor of The Suffragette. During World War I, she called for the military conscription of men and the industrial conscription of women, as well as for the internment of every person in England who was of enemy nationality, regardless of gender and age. In 1918, when some British women were given the right to vote, Pankhurst ran in the 1918 general election as a Women's Party candidate. In 1921, she moved to California and became an evangelist in the Second Adventist movement. Pankhurst died in 1958.

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Woman suffrage activist

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Female

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1913

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“Pankhurst, Christabel (1880-1958),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 17, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/6459.